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    Church of San Francisco de Asís in Acayuca, Hidalgo

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    Acayuca

    Town Zapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo Municipality of Zapotlán de Juárez

    Zapotlán de Juárez's biggest locality, beside the Mexico City-Pachuca toll road, with a small dam, a Franciscan-titled church and October fiestas.

    From Pachuca: 20 min by car (19 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    How to get to Acayuca

    • From Pachuca: about 20 min by road (~19 km)
    • Nearest airport: Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles) (NLU), 58 min by car to Zempoala
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    About Acayuca

    At 2,456 metres, Acayuca occupies the notch that separates the Tizayuca Valley from the Sierra de Tezontlalpan: part plain, part ridge, with dry, cool air and its waters headed for the Moctezuma basin. The 2020 census counted 11,018 people, over half of the whole municipality (51.38%). That number has jumped: 4,992 in 1990, and only 1,967 in 1930.

    One kilometre southwest of the settlement lies the Huatongo reservoir, an earth and masonry dam faced with basalt rock, built in 1961-62 to hold the flow of the Barranca de los Hondones stream. The wall is 510 metres long and 8 metres high, and the basin was designed for 1.76 million cubic metres. In the rainy season it supplies a little supplementary irrigation and a drinking place for free-grazing livestock; regional environmental studies note that the grazing partly harms the water quality.

    The town is divided into colonias (Centro, La Cañada, El Cerrito, Los Jorges, Obrera, Nueva Santa María, Los Soldados, El Pedregal, El Herradero, Lázaro Cárdenas and Pueblo Nuevo) and lives from trade, livestock and farming. The church of San Francisco de Asís stands in the centre, and there is also a Methodist temple called El Divino Salvador. The festival calendar is long: the Independence days of 15-17 September, the patron-saint fiesta of St Francis on 3-5 October, the Virgin of Guadalupe on 12 December in the colonias La Cañada and El Pedregal, and St Isidore the Farmer on 15 May in colonia Obrera.

    How to get to Acayuca

    Drive from Pachuca: 20 min, 19 km

    Acayuca lies alongside the Mexico City-Pachuca autopista (the 85D, the tolled leg of Federal Highway 85). Roads from the village go to Zapotlán de Juárez, Santa Matilde and Pitahayas, besides the tracks threading between the ranches.

    For public transport, Wikipedia's pointer is the routes to Tizayuca and Pachuca that start at Indios Verdes, Potrero or the Central del Norte. Pachuca is around 15 km measured in a straight line (the estimate is 15 minutes by car) and Zempoala, the closest Pueblo Mágico, around 21 km (about 25 minutes); on the actual road the trip runs a bit longer.

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    Fiestas: Independence days (15-17 September), patron-saint fiesta of St Francis (3-5 October), Guadalupe (12 December, colonias La Cañada and El Pedregal) and St Isidore (15 May, colonia Obrera). Wikipedia (es), Acayuca · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting Acayuca: what to see and do

    Church of San Francisco de Asís, in the centre of town
    Methodist temple El Divino Salvador
    Huatongo dam, one kilometre southwest: a 510 m long, 8 m high wall built in 1961-62
    Patron-saint fiesta of St Francis, 3-5 October
    Independence-day festivities, 15-17 September

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    Pick up a car at NLU (Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles)): about 58 min by road to Zempoala, then 21 km more to Acayuca, on your own schedule.

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    Flights

    The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles) (NLU), about 58 min by road from Zempoala, the base for Acayuca.

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    When to go to Acayuca cool

    Acayuca shares the climate of Zempoala, 21 km away. The best months to visit are January, February, November, and December.

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    The closest Pueblo Mágico: Zempoala

    Bell tower and arcaded portico of the Todos los Santos convent, Zempoala, Hidalgo cool
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    Drive times by road from OpenStreetMap, without traffic. Times marked ~ are estimated from the straight-line distance.

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