La Malinche

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Places to visit in La Malinche 66

66 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Towns · 40 Villages · 24 Cities · 1 Mountains · 1

Towns

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  Acajete · Town · Puebla
  Municipal seat in the Tepeaca valley below La Malinche, "bowl of water", founded 1521–1523; here Santa Anna beat Mejía and Urrea in 1839.
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  Acxotla del Monte · Town · Tlaxcala
  Santa María Acxotla del Monte, a village of Teolocholco on La Malinche's slope, with a Virgen del Pilar church and an October fair.
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  Amaxac de Guerrero · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat of 10,417 people, a former textile-mill area, with the San Bernabé fair on 11 June and catrín carnival groups.
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  Atltzayanca · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat in eastern Tlaxcala, with the Santiago Apóstol parish, pulque haciendas and moors-and-Christians dances at the July fiesta.
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  Benito Juárez · Town · Tlaxcala
  Huamantla locality founded in 1938 with 5,736 people in 2020, the municipality's fourth largest, about 6 km north of the town centre.
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  Chiautempan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Santa Ana Chiautempan, 6 km from Tlaxcala: the cradle of the sarape, with a July fair, a 16th-century Franciscan convent and mole prieto.
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  Ciudad de Rafael Lara Grajales · Town · Puebla
  Town that grew around the San Marcos station of the Mexican Railway on the Llanos de San Juan, named after a local revolutionary general.
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  Concepción Hidalgo · Town · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality in Atltzayanca, with 2,845 people at about 2,590 m; its name joins the Immaculate Conception with Miguel Hidalgo.
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  Contla · Town · Tlaxcala
  San Bernardino Contla, a weaving town on La Malinche's slopes, home of the saltillo sarape and of Tlaxcala's Revolution, with a catrín carnival.
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  Cuapiaxtla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat in eastern Tlaxcala next to Puebla, with a San Lorenzo parish church and a past of pulque haciendas.
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  Cuaxomulco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat at the foot of Cerro Cuatlapanga, with an 18th-century church of San Antonio Abad and a fireworks and papel picado tradition.
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  La Magdalena Tlaltelulco · Town · Tlaxcala
  A town on the lower slopes of La Malinche, 8 km from Tlaxcala on the Chiautempan-Puebla road, its own municipality since 1995, with a barrio carnival.
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  Mazatecochco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat on La Malinche's southern slope, with an 18th-century parish of Saints Cosmas and Damian and a carnival danced by neighbourhood sections.
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  Papalotla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Valley town between Puebla and Tlaxcala, with a charro carnival, the old Panzacola station and a fair around October.
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  San Andrés Ahuashuatepec · Town · Tlaxcala
  Tzompantepec's largest locality, with 12,628 people, an 18th-century church of St Andrew the Apostle and Cerro Chichimecateutli nearby.
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  San Bartolomé Cuahuixmatlac · Town · Tlaxcala
  Chiautempan's second-largest locality, with a church claimed as the first hermitage in the Americas and the Walnut Fair each August.
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  San Francisco Tetlanohcan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of a municipality at 2,420 m on the slopes of La Malinche: St Francis church with a clock, carnival camadas and woollen textiles.
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  San Isidro Buen Suceso · Town · Tlaxcala
  Nahua town on La Malinche's southern slope, founded around 1890 by families from Canoa, with a San Isidro fiesta on 15 May and All Saints offerings.
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  San José Aztatla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Contla village at the foot of La Malinche, with a 19th-century church of bare-stone towers and cantera angels, a jagüey pond and a 19 March saint's day.
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  San José Chiapa · Town · Puebla
  Town on the Llanos de San Juan where Bishop Palafox hid in 1647 and Audi opened its plant in 2016; the name means "in the marsh".
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  San José Teacalco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of one of Tlaxcala's youngest municipalities, with potters, carnival huehues and a San José fiesta each 19 March on La Malinche's lower slopes.
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  San José Xicohténcatl · Town · Tlaxcala
  Town in Huamantla municipality with 7,081 people in 2020, beside the Jalapa-Puebla rail line, about 10 km from Huamantla city.
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  San Juan Totolac · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of Totolac, 3 km from Tlaxcala city: an 1714 parish church and the festival bread baked every week.
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  San Lucas Tlacochcalco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Fourth-largest locality in Santa Cruz Tlaxcala (3,313 people in 2020), with a 17th-century church restored by INAH in 2023; name means "house of arrows".
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  San Marcos Contla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality of Papalotla, 3 km from the seat on federal highway 121: San Marcos church and fiesta on 25 April.
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  San Miguel Contla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Locality in Santa Cruz Tlaxcala municipality with 9,556 people in 2020, larger than the municipal seat; its church has a bell tower and clock.
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  San Pedro Tlacotepec · Town · Tlaxcala
  Xaloztoc locality with an old church of San Pedro, a 16th-century coat of arms and a fair running from late June to early August.
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  San Pedro Tlalcuapan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Chiautempan locality on the slopes of La Malinche, once called Melendeztla, with two churches and a Nahuatl wedding dance.
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  San Pedro Xochiteotla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Village in Chiautempan with 2,868 people in 2020, once a blanket-weaving place, with its San Pedro fiesta on 29 June.
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  Santa Catarina Ayometla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat in southern Tlaxcala: 18th-century parish of Santa Catarina, tinsmithing and a patron-saint fiesta on 25 November.
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  Santa Cruz Quilehtla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of a young municipality in southern Tlaxcala: carnival chivarrudos, rockets and paper flowers, and the Holy Cross fiesta on 3 May.
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  Santa Cruz Tlaxcala · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of a former textile municipality, with a late-16th-century parish, the San Manuel ex-factory and a carnival of umbrella-bearing dancers.
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  Santa Inés Tecuexcomac · Town · Tlaxcala
  Ixtacuixtla locality of 3,079 people, with the church of Santa Inés on the Tlaxcala-San Martín road and a farming economy.
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  Santa Isabel Xiloxoxtla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of one of Tlaxcala's smallest municipalities, with an industrial park, a charros carnival and the chapel of Juan Diego.
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  Santa María Acuitlapilco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Large locality south of the state capital, beside the lagoon that bears its name and known for its huehues and the dance of El Palomo.
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  Teolocholco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat on the lower slopes of La Malinche, with a Baroque San Luis Obispo parish, a finely carved atrium cross and a walnut fair in August.
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  Terrenate · Town · Tlaxcala
  Farming town in Tlaxcala's high northeast at 2,680 m, ringed by old pulque haciendas such as San Pedro Tenexac; San Nicolás fiesta on 10 September.
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  Tocatlán · Town · Tlaxcala
  A seat at 2,559 m with the church of Santa María (Asunción, fiesta 13 August), fibre basketry and pollo a la Tocatlán.
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  Xaloztoc · Town · Tlaxcala
  San Cosme Xaloztoc, municipal seat: 18th-century church, a mariachi fair on 26 September and fireworks-making.
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  Zitlaltépec · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat on the slopes of La Malinche beside Puebla, with the San Pablo parish, the San Pedro and San Pablo fair and embroidery.

Villages

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  Acuamanala · Village · Tlaxcala
  A Baroque village on La Malinche's slopes with an 18th-century church, fireworks, mole prieto and a feast on 13 June.
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  Apango de Zaragoza · Village · Puebla
  Acajete village at 2,337 m, right next to La Magdalena Tetela Morelos; merged into it in 1990 and restored in 2000 under its current name.
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  Ayometitla · Village · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality in the municipality of Santa Cruz Quilehtla, with a chapel of Santiago and 2,158 people in 2020.
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  Chapultepec · Village · Tlaxcala
  Huamantla locality at 2,581 m whose Nahuatl name means 'on the hill of the grasshoppers'; 1,078 people in 2020.
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  Concepción Chimalpa · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Acuamanala on the slopes of La Malinche, with a plain Immaculate Conception chapel on the Camino Real .
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  Cuauhtémoc · Village · Tlaxcala
  Huamantla locality founded on 2 March 1938 in honour of the last Mexica tlatoani; 1,227 people in 2020, about 5 km from the town.
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  El Carmen Aztama · Village · Tlaxcala
  Teolocholco village whose Nahuatl name means 'place where herons are hunted', with a Virgen del Carmen church and a fair that starts on 14 July.
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  La Resurrección · Village · Puebla
  Nahua district north of Puebla city: the Manzanilla ball court, a 17th-century parish and the Holy Week memela festival.
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  San Agustín Tlaxco · Village · Puebla
  Acajete locality on La Malinche's slopes, nearly 7,000 people, beside the Puebla metro area.
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  San Felipe Cuauhtenco · Village · Tlaxcala
  Fifth section of Contla on La Malinche's northeast slope; a Nahuatl-speaking village of weavers and farmers with a feast for San Felipe de Jesús on 5 February.
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  San Juan Quetzalcoapan · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Tzompantepec with an 18th-century church of San Juan, Latin-cross plan and stone vaults; fiesta on 24 June.
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  San Juan Tepulco · Village · Puebla
  "Place of many stones": a village of over 10,000 in Acajete, at 2,576 m, in country known for metates, molcajetes and festival bread.
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  San Miguel Canoa · Village · Puebla
  Town of about 15,000 on the slopes of La Malinche, 12 km north-east of Puebla city; a municipality in its own right until 1962.
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  San Miguel Espejo · Village · Puebla
  A village in Puebla municipality at 2,411 m, cut by ravines running down from La Malinche, 15 km from the capital's centre.
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  San Rafael Tepatlaxco · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Chiautempan on the slope of La Malinche at 2,540 m; 2,213 people in 2020, with Archangel Raphael as patron since 1916.
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  San Sebastián de Aparicio · Village · Puebla
  Community of the municipality of Puebla on the city's northern edge by Tlaxcala, named after the Franciscan friar Sebastián de Aparicio.
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  Santa Cruz Tetela · Village · Tlaxcala
  A Chiautempan village at 2,295 m, with prickly-pear groves and farm plots; its Nahuatl name means stony place.
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  Santa Isabel Tepetzala · Village · Puebla
  "Between the hills": an Acajete town almost as big as its seat, with a church dating to 1563 and stone carvers of metates and molcajetes.
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  Santa María Ixtiyucan · Village · Puebla
  Nopalucan's "flat place": a farming town more populous than its own municipal seat, on the plain where nearly everything is cooked with nopal.
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  Santa María Xonacatepec · Village · Puebla
  "On the hill of onions": an auxiliary town of Puebla on the Malinche foothills, part of the municipality of Resurrección until 1922.
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  Tepatlaxco de Hidalgo · Village · Puebla
  Stony town on the slopes of La Malinche, refounded around 1550 under Saint Sebastian, that fought for centuries for its forest and its municipality.
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  Tzompantepec · Village · Tlaxcala
  Small seat near Apizaco where Tlaxcalans fought Cortés in 1519, with the painted façade of the Divino Salvador church and clay-comal workshops.
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  Velazco · Village · Tlaxcala
  A colonia founded in 1948 in the municipality of Xaloztoc, at 2,490 m and among the farthest from the municipal seat.
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  Zacazontetla · Village · Tlaxcala
  Community in Xaloztoc, 1.5 km from the municipal seat; its fair falls on 3 May, Holy Cross day. Neighbours San Pedro Tlacotepec and Tocatlán.

Cities

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  San Pablo del Monte · City · Tlaxcala
  A city on Puebla's doorstep, Tlaxcala's most populous, with talavera workshops and a fair in late June.

Mountains

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  Cuatlapanga · Mountain · Tlaxcala
  A 2,917 m volcanic hill on the flanks of La Malinche, climbed in about an hour from Cuaxomulco on a trail with 14 chapels up to Cristo Rey.

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