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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.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Santiago Yancuitlalpan
México, Mexico · North America
About Santiago Yancuitlalpan
Santiago Yancuitlalpan works well as a base: 5 minutes from La Magdalena Chichicaspa, 14km from Chapultepec Castle.
Santiago Yancuitlalpan is in México, Mexico, with about 10,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is La Magdalena Chichicaspa, about 4 km away.
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What is there to see near Santiago Yancuitlalpan?
Within an hour or so of Santiago Yancuitlalpan: Museo Nacional de Antropología (13 km), Pujol (13 km), Chapultepec Castle (14 km), Six Flags México (14 km).
Are there any good drives near Santiago Yancuitlalpan?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Santiago Yancuitlalpan?
Santiago Yancuitlalpan is in México, Mexico, about 4 km from La Magdalena Chichicaspa.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 10,013
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- México
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.3840, -99.3047
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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 Santiago Yancuitlalpan
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
13 km · about 25 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.
14 km · about 25 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.
14 km · about 25 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
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.
18 km · about 20 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.
19 km · about 20 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.
19 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Santiago Yancuitlalpan
- 77 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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