Hidalgo, Mexico · North America
El Mirador is worth a stop: 10 minutes from La Colonia, 34km from Prismas Basálticos de Santa María Regla.
El Mirador is in Hidalgo, Mexico, with about 1,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is La Colonia, about 5 km away.
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Within an hour or so of El Mirador: Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte) (19 km), Huasca de Ocampo (31 km), Prismas Basálticos de Santa María Regla (34 km), Teotihuacan (38 km).
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
El Mirador is in Hidalgo, Mexico, about 5 km from La Colonia.
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
Full driving guide for Mexico5 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Hidalgo's "Little Cornwall" at 2,700 m: red-roofed houses, a Cornish cemetery whose graves face England, and 30 bakeries selling pastes, the Mexican descendant of the Cornish pasty.
19 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Mexico's first designated Pueblo Mágico, a Hidalgo village of red-tiled roofs beside the 18th-century Santa María Regla and San Miguel Regla silver haciendas, now set among reservoirs and basalt canyons.
31 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Columnar basalt gorge walls with waterfalls near Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, reached by road from Pachuca with visitor parking.
34 km · about 40 min drive
ancient ruins
The massive pre-Aztec city featuring the towering Pyramids of the Sun and Moon and the grand Avenue of the Dead, once one of the largest cities in the ancient world.
38 km · about 45 min drive
museum
A vast former Jesuit college at Tepotzotlán whose Church of San Francisco Javier holds Mexico's most overwhelming set of gilded Churrigueresque altarpieces: a wall-to-wall gold explosion, plus colonial art across the cloisters.
56 km · about 65 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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