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Santa Maria Ajoloapan Axolotl Hueypoxtla
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Santa María Ajoloapan

México, Mexico · North America

About Santa María Ajoloapan

Santa María Ajoloapan sits on the route: 15 minutes from Tlapanaloya, 58km from Prismas Basálticos de Santa María Regla.

Santa María Ajoloapan is in México, Mexico, with about 9,200 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tlapanaloya, about 7 km away.

Santa María Ajoloapan is a town inside municipality of Hueypoxtla in Mexico State in Mexico. The town is bordered on the north Tianguistongo Town, south to Casa Blanca hacienda, east village San José Bata and west by the town of Coyotillos in Apaxco.

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What is there to see near Santa María Ajoloapan?

Within an hour or so of Santa María Ajoloapan: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (35 km), Teotihuacan (38 km), Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte) (43 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (55 km).

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The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.

Where is Santa María Ajoloapan?

Santa María Ajoloapan is in México, Mexico, about 7 km from Tlapanaloya.

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Quick Information

Population
9,185
Continent
North America
Country
Mexico
Region
México
Timezone
America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
19.9769, -99.0447

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Worth the detour from Santa María Ajoloapan

6 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.

35 km · about 40 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.

38 km · about 45 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.

43 km · about 50 min drive

cathedral

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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

55 km · about 65 min drive

landmark

Huasca de Ocampo

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.

55 km · about 65 min drive

natural wonder

Prismas Basálticos de Santa María Regla

Columnar basalt gorge walls with waterfalls near Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, reached by road from Pachuca with visitor parking.

58 km · about 65 min drive

When to drive here

Year-round

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

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