A region of Guanajuato Querétaro
The fertile lowland plateau of central Mexico across Guanajuato, Querétaro and neighbouring states: silver cities, the cradle of independence, farm towns and car-making hubs.
5 Pueblos Mágicos · 14 places to visit
Pueblos Mágicos in The Bajío
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Places to visit in The Bajío 14
14 places with their own page, grouped by kind.
Villages · 6 Cities · 3 Towns · 3 Landmarks and museums · 2
Villages
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Cañada de Caracheo · Village · Guanajuato
Village founded in 1612 between El Culiacán and La Gavia hills, where Blessed Elías del Socorro Nieves was killed. -
Hoya de Cíntora · Village · Guanajuato
A maar crater of the Siete Luminarias southwest of Valle de Santiago, with salty water and rock paintings; the last stretch is dirt road. -
Ixtla · Village · Guanajuato
Apaseo el Grande village ringed by the remains of 60+ viceregal family chapels; La Pinta keeps wall paintings of the Passion. -
La Moncada · Village · Guanajuato
Dairy village in Tarimoro municipality near the Celaya-Salvatierra highway, with a San José parish and a fiesta on 1 May. -
San Pablo Casacuarán · Village · Guanajuato
Farming village in Yuriria with a church to San Pablo and a fair that ends on 25 January with bands, bulls and a parade of cars. -
Santiago Maravatío · Village · Guanajuato
Municipal seat founded in 1540 beside springs that have since dried up; 19th-century church, its own dance and a Thursday and Sunday market.
Cities
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Guanajuato · City · Guanajuato
Silver-mining state capital squeezed into a ravine: pink and green stone churches, alleys, underground roads and the Cervantino festival. -
León · City · Guanajuato
Guanajuato's biggest city and Mexico's shoe capital: leather outlets, a lion-topped arch, a neo-Gothic shrine and a November balloon festival. -
Santiago de Querétaro · City · Querétaro
Booming Bajío capital with a walkable Baroque centre, a 74-arch aqueduct and a key role in Mexican independence and the 1917 Constitution.
Towns
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Ciudad Manuel Doblado · Town · Guanajuato
Formerly San Pedro Piedra Gorda: birthplace of the insurgent Amo Torres, with a baroque parish church, haciendas and a big 3 May fiesta. -
Jaral del Progreso · Town · Guanajuato
Farming town in the Bajío with a 19th-century parish, guava rolls and a hill of crosses that draws pilgrims every 3 May. -
San Miguel de Allende · Town · Guanajuato
Hillside colonial town of cobbled lanes and ochre walls under a pink neo-Gothic parish church; birthplace of Ignacio Allende and an old art colony.
Landmarks and museums
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Cerro del Cubilete (Cristo Rey) · Landmark · Guanajuato
Hilltop shrine at 2,579 m crowned by a 20 m bronze Christ the King, one of Mexico's great pilgrimage sites, with wide views over the Bajío. -
Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato · Landmark · Guanajuato
Guanajuato's famous and macabre museum of naturally mummified bodies, exhumed from the municipal cemetery of Santa Paula next door.
Top tours in The Bajío
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Getting around The Bajío
Fly into León (Bajío) (BJX) and Morelia (MLM).
Cities to start from: León Querétaro Celaya Salamanca Silao San Francisco del Rincón Valle de Santiago San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato Dolores Hidalgo Uriangato
Most of the region is reached by road: a rental car is the easiest way to see several places in a day, and buses link the larger towns.
When to visit The Bajío
Most of The Bajío is at its best in January, February, March, and April.
Month-by-month climate on each Pueblo Mágico's page: Comonfort, Dolores Hidalgo, Jalpa de Cánovas, Salvatierra, Yuriria