Northern Estado de México

Pueblos Mágicos in Northern Estado de México

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Estado de México Villa del Carbón

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Estado de México El Oro

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Estado de México Jilotepec

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Estado de México Aculco

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Places to visit in Northern Estado de México 25

25 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 16 Towns · 8 Mountains · 1

Villages

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  Arroyo Zarco Pueblo · Village · Estado de México
  A village in Aculco beside the México-Querétaro highway, with the former Arroyo Zarco hacienda and its Jesuit Baroque chapel.
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  Exhacienda de Solís · Village · Estado de México
  Former grain hacienda in Temascalcingo, the municipality's largest, where López Rayón set up during Independence; the main house is now a school campus.
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  San Bartolo Morelos · Village · Estado de México
  Seat of Morelos municipality in northern Edomex: a plaza with the San Bartolomé church, wooded hills and a giant Morelos statue on Las Peñitas.
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  San Bartolo Oxtotitlán · Village · Estado de México
  Otomí village in Jiquipilco at 2,720 m amid pine-oak forest, with a mushroom fair on 23-25 August and the feast of San Bartolomé on the 24th.
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  San Felipe y Santiago · Village · Estado de México
  Otomí community in the Jiquipilco highlands with two patron feasts, in May and July; fourth most populous in the municipality.
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  San Francisco Tepeolulco · Village · Estado de México
  A Temascalcingo village at 2,539 m, "on the round hill": a San Francisco church and hand-embroidered quesquémetls with flowers and birds.
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  San Francisco de Asís · Village · Estado de México
  A colony of about 2,255 people next to Ixtlahuaca de Rayón, at 2,540 m, on the Toluca-Atlacomulco corridor; not to be confused with namesakes elsewhere.
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  San Juan Tuxtepec · Village · Estado de México
  An Otomí pueblo in Chapa de Mota at 2,730 m, with a fair on 23-24 June; not the Tuxtepec in Oaxaca.
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  San Juan de los Jarros · Village · Estado de México
  Hill village in Atlacomulco, once Cuiyatepec, regrouped in 1604 from Mazahua, Otomí and Nahua settlements; church of San Juan Bautista.
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  San Lucas Totolmaloya · Village · Estado de México
  Otomí community in Aculco with a 16th-century atrial cross, the San Lucas fiesta on 18 October and a canyon with a waterfall nearby.
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  San Luis Taxhimay · Village · Estado de México
  The hillside village founded in 1935 by the people flooded out of San Luis de las Peras; Señor del Quejido feast and boats on the dam.
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  San Miguel Enyege · Village · Estado de México
  Village west of Ixtlahuaca whose Mazahua name means 'at the spring', with the memory of a former hacienda.
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  San Miguel Tenochtitlán · Village · Estado de México
  Mazahua village in western Jocotitlán, known for pottery, artisanal ice cream and a live Passion play in Holy Week.
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  San Pedro de los Metates · Village · Estado de México
  Village in Acambay where molcajetes and metates are still carved from basalt; the San Pedro feast is held on 29 June.
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  Santiago Tlapanaloya · Village · Hidalgo
  Rural community in southern Hidalgo with a civic plaza, a patron festival on 25 July and a Revolution legend about Santiago's little horses.
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  Santiago Tlautla · Village · Hidalgo
  Village on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (World Heritage 2010), with an eighteenth-century parish and the three-arch Puente de las Ánimas.

Towns

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  Atlacomulco de Fabela · Town · Estado de México
  Market and cattle town of the state's northwest, with a pink-stone shrine, a weekend tianguis and a September fair.
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  Ciudad de Jocotitlán · Town · Estado de México
  A Mazahua-country town below the Xocotépetl volcano, Pueblo con Encanto since 2021: a two-level plaza, black-stone church and a market of wild greens.
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  Ixtlahuaca de Rayón · Town · Estado de México
  Mazahua-country seat with an 18th-century parish church, the spot where López Rayón was shot, and a big Monday tianguis.
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  Jiquipilco · Town · Estado de México
  Otomí municipal seat in the north of the Toluca valley: San Juan Bautista parish, the Señor de Jiquipilco feast in March and a pulque fair.
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  San Andrés Timilpan · Town · Estado de México
  A small Otomí seat at the foot of the San Andrés hills, above the Huapango reservoir valley; feast of Saint Andrew on 30 November and "chito" barbacoa.
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  San Felipe del Progreso · Town · Estado de México
  Mazahua seat in the State of Mexico's northwest, a Pueblo con Encanto: the Nuestro Padre Jesús feast with popcorn ornaments, Tepetitlán dam, ceremonial centre.
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  San Francisco Soyaniquilpan · Town · Estado de México
  A seat on the México–Querétaro highway where Benito Juárez slept in 1867; San Francisco parish, the Carmen chapel and the old La Goleta hacienda.
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  San José del Rincón · Town · Estado de México
  A Mazahua municipal seat created in 2001 on the Villa Victoria–El Oro road, and the jumping-off point for the La Mesa monarch sanctuary.

Mountains

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  Jocotitlán · Mountain · Estado de México
  A 3,900 m volcano over the north of the Toluca valley: a Mazahua sacred mountain with a high chapel and an ecotourism park on its slopes.

Top tours in Northern Estado de México

Jilotepec Teotihuacan pyramids morning or afternoon without tourist traps ★ 4.9 (10,252) 5 h 30 min From US$59

Jilotepec Xochimilco, Coyoacan and Frida Kahlo with Optional Lunch ★ 4.5 (8,387) 9 h From US$40

Jilotepec Balloon flight + Breakfast in cave + Pyramids + Pick up CDMX. ★ 4.9 (8,160) 2–8 h From US$149

Jilotepec Balloon flight + pick up in CDMX + Breakfast in Cave + Pyramids ★ 4.9 (7,664) 4–7 h From US$157

Jilotepec Teotihuacan Hot Air Balloon Flight from Mexico City / Volare ★ 4.8 (4,438) 3–9 h From US$144

San Francisco Soyaniquilpan Zacatlán Guided Tour walking through the Center ★ 5.0 (2) 2 h 30 min From US$8

Aculco Full Day Private Tour Knowing the History of Aculco 8 h From US$127

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