México, Mexico · North America
Tequixquiac is worth a stop: 10 minutes from San Miguel, 40km from Teotihuacan.
Tequixquiac is in México, Mexico, with about 23,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San Miguel, about 5 km away.
Tequixquiac is a municipality located in the Zumpango Region of the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipality is located 84 kilometres (52 mi) north of Mexico City within the valley that connects the Valley of Mexico with the Mezquital Valley. The name comes from Nahuatl and means "place of tequesquite waters". TheRead more
municipal seat is the town of Santiago Tequixquiac, although both the town and municipality are commonly referred to as simply "Tequixquiac".
The municipality is known as the "cradle of prehistoric art in the Americas" because of the sacrum bone and other artifacts found in the region.
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Within an hour or so of Tequixquiac: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (23 km), Teotihuacan (40 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (47 km), Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución) (53 km).
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Tequixquiac is in México, Mexico, about 5 km from San Miguel.
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
Full driving guide for Mexico8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
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.
23 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
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.
40 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
47 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
53 km · about 60 min drive
cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
53 km · about 60 min drive
restaurant
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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
restaurant
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.
53 km · about 60 min drive
museum
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
54 km · about 60 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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