Jaltenco is worth a stop: 5 minutes from El Llano Santa María, 27km from Teotihuacan.
Jaltenco is in México, Mexico, with about 11,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is El Llano Santa María, about 4 km away.
Jaltenco is the municipality located in Zumpango Region, a small municipality in this region, covers an area of 4.7 km2, this territory is in the northeastern part of the state of Mexico in Mexico. The municipal seat is San Andrés Jaltenco, although both are commonly called only San Andrés. The municipality isRead more located at a northern pass leading out of the Valley of Mexico to 60 kilometers north of Mexico City and about 200 km northeast of the state capital of Toluca.
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 26,359. The municipality has an exclave, Alborada.
Within an hour or so of Jaltenco: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (14 km), Teotihuacan (27 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (30 km), Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) (36 km).
Are there any good drives near Jaltenco?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Jaltenco?
Jaltenco is in México, Mexico, about 4 km from El Llano Santa María.
Road trip
Drive to Jaltenco
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
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.
14 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Teotihuacan
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.
27 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
30 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
36 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
36 km · about 40 min drive
restaurant
Casa de los Azulejos
An 18th-century Mexico City palace sheathed on three sides in blue-and-white Puebla Talavera tile, its glass-roofed courtyard now the flagship Sanborns restaurant: breakfast under Orozco's staircase mural.
36 km · about 40 min drive
restaurant
Pujol
Enrique Olvera's Polanco restaurant, where the signature mole madre is a black mole reheated for thousands of days and served as a single ring beside a fresh one. Two Michelin stars; book months ahead.
37 km · about 45 min drive
castle
Chapultepec Castle
A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.
38 km · about 45 min drive
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.