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Xochimilco Floating Gardens
A network of ancient Aztec canals and artificial islands where colorful trajinera boats glide past floating gardens and mariachi bands.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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San Andrés Mixquic
Mexico City, Mexico · North America
About San Andrés Mixquic
San Andrés Mixquic works well as a base: 5 minutes from Barrio de Guadalupe, 29km from Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.
San Andrés Mixquic is in Mexico City, Mexico, with about 13,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Barrio de Guadalupe, about 4 km away.
San Andres Míxquic is a community located in the southeast of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City) in the borough of Tláhuac. The community was founded by the 11th century on what was a small island in Lake Chalco. “Míxquic” means “in mesquite” but the community's culture for most of its history was based on chinampas,Read more
gardens floating on the lake's waters and tied to the island. Drainage of Lake Chalco in the 19th and 20th century eventually destroyed the chinampas but the community is still agricultural in nature, despite being officially in the territory of Mexico City.
San Andres Míxquic is best known for its Day of the Dead commemorations, which consist of both ritual and cultural events lasting from 31 October to 2 November. These events draw thousands of Mexican and international visitors, and culminate in the Alumbrada, when the cemetery that surrounds the community's main church glows with thousands of candles and smoke from incense the evening of 2 November. This community was designated as a "Barrio Mágico" by the city in 2011.
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What is there to see near San Andrés Mixquic?
Within an hour or so of San Andrés Mixquic: Xochimilco Floating Gardens (15 km), Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez (24 km), Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul) (25 km), Six Flags México (27 km).
Are there any good drives near San Andrés Mixquic?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is San Andrés Mixquic?
San Andrés Mixquic is in Mexico City, Mexico, about 4 km from Barrio de Guadalupe.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 13,310
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Mexico City
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.2251, -98.9641
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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Worth the detour from San Andrés Mixquic
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
racetrack
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
24 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul)
The vibrant blue house where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, and died, filled with her art, personal objects, and Diego Rivera's collection.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Six Flags México
Mexico City's premier amusement park with world-class coasters and seasonal events in the south of the city.
27 km · about 30 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.
29 km · about 35 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.
29 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Tepoztlán
A Morelos town under sheer volcanic cliffs, with a hilltop 13th-century pyramid to the pulque god reached by a steep hour's climb, a fortress-like Dominican convent, and a market known for exotic ice creams.
30 km · about 35 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.
30 km · about 35 min drive
Driving roads near San Andrés Mixquic
- 37 kmPaso de CortésThe 3,600-m saddle between the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, reached by a paved mountain road from Amecameca: the route Cortés marched into the Valley of Mexico in 1519.
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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