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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
North AmericaMexicoHidalgo
Tizayuca
Hidalgo, Mexico · North America
About Tizayuca
Tizayuca is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Huitzila, 21km from Teotihuacan.
Tizayuca is in Hidalgo, Mexico, with about 43,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Huitzila, about 4 km away.
Tizayuca is one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central Mexico. The city of Tizayuca is the municipal seat. The population of the city is 60,265 and the municipality has 168,302 inhabitants.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Tizayuca?
Within an hour or so of Tizayuca: Teotihuacan (21 km), Museo Nacional del Virreinato (29 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (42 km), Mineral del Monte (Real del Monte) (46 km).
Are there any good drives near Tizayuca?
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Where is Tizayuca?
Tizayuca is in Hidalgo, Mexico, about 4 km from Huitzila.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 43,250
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Hidalgo
- Timezone
- America/Mexico_City
- Coordinates
- 19.8372, -98.9761
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Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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Worth the detour from Tizayuca
8 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.
29 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
42 km · about 50 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.
46 km · about 55 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.
48 km · about 55 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.
48 km · about 55 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.
48 km · about 55 min drive
racetrack
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
The Mexico City circuit hosting the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, built around the Foro Sol stadium section.
50 km · about 55 min drive
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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