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    Laguna de Zumpango, the lagoon a few kilometres from Santa María de Guadalupe (an around photo; nothing shows the colony itself), Estado de México

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    Santa María de Guadalupe

    Village Zumpango, Estado de México Municipality of Zumpango Valley of Mexico

    Ejido colony in Zumpango, 4,942 residents, about 4 km northwest of the seat, near the lagoon, the fireworks trade and the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense.

    From Pachuca: 55 min by car (59 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    How to get to Santa María de Guadalupe

    • From Pachuca: about 55 min by road (~59 km)
    • Nearest airport: Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles) (NLU), 48 min by car to Tepotzotlán
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    About Santa María de Guadalupe

    Santa María de Guadalupe is one of the eight ejido colonies of the municipality of Zumpango, in the north of the Valley of Mexico; it is not the Guadalupe basilica in Pachuca or any other place with the same name. INEGI counted 4,942 residents in 2020, and its postal code is 55628. It lies about 4 km northwest of Zumpango de Ocampo, the municipal seat, on the plain left when the saline lake linked to old Lake Texcoco dried out; farther north rises Cerro Zitlaltepec, about 2,650 metres, the municipality's highest point.

    As a colony it has no monument to visit; what is near is what defines Zumpango. The Zumpango lagoon now serves as a regulating basin and recreation park, with an island where an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated. Fireworks are a craft handed down from parents to children, and rocket castles drive the economy at patron-saint feasts; there is also a workshop for blown-glass Christmas baubles. The parish of the Purísima Concepción, in the seat, is churrigueresque and is best visited on 8 December.

    The municipality was founded on 31 July 1820, and its name, from tzompantli, means place of the row of skulls. For a traveller, Santa María de Guadalupe is mainly a base for exploring the area: nearly everything else is in Zumpango itself or in the neighbouring villages of Santa María Cuevas and San Juan Zitlaltepec.

    How to get to Santa María de Guadalupe

    Drive from Pachuca: 55 min, 59 km

    The colony lies about 4 km northwest of the centre of Zumpango de Ocampo and about 43 km in a straight line from the centre of Mexico City; by road allow roughly 1 hour or more depending on northern-zone traffic. Zumpango has access to the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense (Wikipedia), and from the seat you continue northwest on local roads.

    By public transport, buses run from Mexico City to Zumpango: from Metro El Rosario the AMMOSA, AMO and SAM lines depart, and the Tren Suburbano connects with Zumpango via Melchor Ocampo and Cuautitlán, according to Wikipedia's route list. In Zumpango, colectivos leave for the Mexibús (La Quebrada, Ojo de Agua) and for Lechería, plus combis to San Juan Zitlaltepec and Tequixquiac. Felipe Ángeles Airport has a bus terminal linking with Zumpango. Tepotzotlán is about 15 km away in a straight line.

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    The parish of the Purísima Concepción in Zumpango is open to visitors during the 8 December festivities. Wikipedia: Municipio de Zumpango · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting Santa María de Guadalupe: what to see and do

    Laguna de Zumpango and the island where the Virgin of Guadalupe is venerated
    Parish of the Purísima Concepción in the seat, with its 8 December feast
    Blown-glass Christmas bauble workshop, with tours
    Fireworks tradition of the rocket castles at patron-saint feasts
    Cerro de Zitlaltepec (2,650 m), north of the municipality

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