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Jilotzingo

México, Mexico · North America

About Jilotzingo

Jilotzingo is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Santa María Cuevas, 30km from Teotihuacan.

Jilotzingo is in México, Mexico, with about 8,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Santa María Cuevas, about 4 km away.

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What is there to see near Jilotzingo?

Within an hour or so of Jilotzingo: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (24 km), Teotihuacan (30 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (43 km), Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) (49 km).

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The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.

Where is Jilotzingo?

Jilotzingo is in México, Mexico, about 4 km from Santa María Cuevas.

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Quick Information

Population
8,523
Continent
North America
Country
Mexico
Region
México
Timezone
America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
19.8689, -99.0619

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Ambulance
911
Fire
911
Driving side
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Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.

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Worth the detour from Jilotzingo

8 notable places within an hour's drive.

museum

Museo Nacional del Virreinato

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.

24 km · about 30 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.

30 km · about 35 min drive

cathedral

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.

43 km · about 50 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.

49 km · about 55 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.

49 km · about 55 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.

49 km · about 55 min drive

landmark

Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte)

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.

50 km · about 60 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.

50 km · about 60 min drive

When to drive here

Year-round

Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.

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