landmark
Six Flags México
Mexico City's premier amusement park with world-class coasters and seasonal events in the south of the city.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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San Miguel Ajusco
Mexico City, Mexico · North America
About San Miguel Ajusco
San Miguel Ajusco works well as a base: 10 minutes from Lomas de Tepemecatl, 22km from Chapultepec Castle.
San Miguel Ajusco is in Mexico City, Mexico, with about 30,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Lomas de Tepemecatl, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near San Miguel Ajusco?
Within an hour or so of San Miguel Ajusco: Six Flags México (8 km), Xochimilco Floating Gardens (11 km), Museo Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul) (15 km), Chapultepec Castle (22 km).
Are there any good drives near San Miguel Ajusco?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is San Miguel Ajusco?
San Miguel Ajusco is in Mexico City, Mexico, about 4 km from Lomas de Tepemecatl.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 29,781
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Mexico City
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.2220, -99.2024
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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 Miguel Ajusco
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Xochimilco Floating Gardens
A network of ancient Aztec canals and artificial islands where colorful trajinera boats glide past floating gardens and mariachi bands.
11 km · about 20 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.
15 km · about 30 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.
22 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Museo Nacional de Antropología
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
23 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
23 km · about 25 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.
23 km · about 25 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.
24 km · about 30 min drive
Driving roads near San Miguel Ajusco
- 61 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.
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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