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    Acatlán de Juárez

    Town Acatlán de Juárez, Jalisco

    Municipal seat in the Lagunas region with its Santa Ana parish, the inn where Benito Juárez stayed and the Chorros de Santa Ana.

    From Guadalajara: 40 min by car (45 km by road) How to get there ↓

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    Day trips around Cocula sometimes stop in Acatlán de Juárez; a tour is the easy way to see it without a car.

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    How to get to Acatlán de Juárez

    • From Guadalajara: about 40 min by road (~45 km)
    • Nearest airport: Guadalajara (GDL), 1 h 14 min by car to Cocula
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    Full Day Tour to Tequila and Amatitán with Fun and Culture ★ 4.9 (750) 9 h 30 min From US$44
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    Tour to Lake Chapala, MAGIC TOWN of Ajijic from Guadalajara ★ 4.6 (518) 8 h 30 min From US$44
    Full Day in Tequila with Tasting and party in Cantaritos ★ 4.9 (434) 10–11 h From US$72
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    About Acatlán de Juárez

    Acatlán de Juárez is the seat of the municipality of the same name, in Jalisco's Lagunas region, at about 1,370 metres above sea level. The 2020 census counted 11,110 people in the town. The Nahuatl name is read as place of abundant reeds, and cane is still grown in the surrounding fields along with maize, beans and peanuts; the municipality also produces sugar and alcohol.

    Local tradition says the first settlers were people from Cocula, beaten by the Purépecha, who settled here around 1509. The town plan was drawn in 1550 under viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, and the Augustinians built the Santa Ana church in the early 1600s. In 1858 Benito Juárez stayed at the Mesón de la Providencia, now a school and museum of arts and trades; in 1906 the town took the name Acatlán de Juárez, and in 1972 it was made a city.

    The centre is built around the plaza with its bandstand and the Parroquia de Santa Ana. Outside the core there are spa pools and viewpoints: the Chorros de Santa Ana, with about 20,000 square metres of green areas for picnics, the Mirador de Santa Cruz, Cerro de la Lima and the Hurtado dam. Local crafts include clay mulitas, corn-husk dolls and jara sticks dyed in bright aniline colours. At the table the staples are goat birria, veal carnitas and pozole, with buñuelos and ponteduro for dessert.

    The main fiesta is for Santa Ana, the town's patron saint, on 26 July, inside a fair that runs from 17 to 27 July.

    How to get to Acatlán de Juárez

    Drive from Guadalajara: 40 min, 45 km

    Acatlán de Juárez is about 45 km from Guadalajara by road, roughly 40 minutes by car without traffic. The route leaves along Avenida López Mateos Sur and continues on the MEX 54D motorway heading south; the town lies near that road. From Cocula, the nearest Pueblo Mágico, it is about 29 km and 30 minutes on highway MEX 80.

    By bus, the Sur de Jalisco line leaves from Guadalajara's Nueva Central Camionera (Módulo 2) and reaches the Acatlán station in about 40 minutes; departures are roughly every three hours, so confirm the timetable with the line (surdejalisco.com.mx, phone 800 622 22 22). No colectivo service from Guadalajara is published.

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    Best season
    Santa Ana fiesta on 26 July within the fair of 17 to 27 July; Santa Cruz on 3 May; bonfires in the streets on 11 December and Guadalupe on 12 December. Wikipedia: Municipio de Acatlán de Juárez · checked Oct 2026

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    Visiting Acatlán de Juárez: what to see and do

    Parroquia de Santa Ana, built by the Augustinians in the early 1600s, facing the main plaza
    Museo de Artes y Oficios in the former Mesón de la Providencia, where Benito Juárez stayed in 1858
    Museo Benito Juárez
    Chorros de Santa Ana, a spa park with green areas for picnics
    Mirador de Santa Cruz and Cerro de la Lima, for views over the valley
    Feria de Acatlán, 17 to 27 July, with the Santa Ana fiesta on 26 July

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    Day trips around Cocula sometimes stop in Acatlán de Juárez; a tour is the easy way to see it without a car.

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    Pick up a car at GDL (Guadalajara): about 1 h 14 min by road to Cocula, then 25 km more to Acatlán de Juárez, on your own schedule.

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    When to go to Acatlán de Juárez mild

    Acatlán de Juárez shares the climate of Cocula, 25 km away. The best months to visit are January, February, November, and December.

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    The closest Pueblo Mágico: Cocula

    Pink Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel at the end of the main plaza of Cocula, Jalisco mild
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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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