Valley of Mexico

Pueblos Mágicos in Valley of Mexico

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Places to visit in Valley of Mexico 171

171 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Towns · 46 Landmarks and museums · 39 Villages · 37 Cities · 17 Mountains · 12 Nature reserves · 8 Archaeological sites · 8 Lakes · 3 Islands · 1

Towns

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  Acolman de Nezahualcóyotl · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of Acolman and the town people call the birthplace of the Christmas piñata: a December fair and a big 16th-century Augustinian convent.
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  Amecameca de Juárez · Town · Estado de México
  A Pueblo con Encanto at the foot of Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl: the Sacromonte shrine, a Dominican parish, a big market and the road to Paso de Cortés.
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  Ayapango de Gabriel Ramos Millán · Town · Estado de México
  A Pueblo con Encanto below Iztaccíhuatl: named "French-style" adobe houses, the Santiago parish, the El Calvario ruins and the cheeses of nearby Poxtla.
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  Chiautla · Town · Estado de México
  San Andrés Chiautla, just north of Texcoco: a late 16th-century Franciscan church, a scorpion-handed Christ and a hill lit up every 12 May.
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  Cocotitlán · Town · Estado de México
  A Chalco-valley town with a church finished in 1700, Baroque altarpieces, a corn fair every August and the Marotas dancers on All Saints' night.
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  Coyoacán · Town · Ciudad de México
  Cortés's first seat of New Spain, later home to Frida Kahlo and Trotsky: twin plazas, a 16th-century parish, a market and cobbled streets.
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  El Dorado Huehuetoca · Town · Estado de México
  Housing development in Huehuetoca municipality, registered as a locality in 2009 and home to 15,193 people in 2020; not a tourist stop.
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  Fuentes del Valle · Town · Estado de México
  Residential colonia in Tultitlán with 82,274 people in 2020 and a Mexibús Line 2 station; not a tourist destination.
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  Huehuetoca · Town · Estado de México
  Municipal seat where the Tajo de Nochistongo, the colonial drainage cut of the Valley of Mexico, began in 1607.
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  Huixquilucan de Degollado · Town · Estado de México
  A hill town of 10,735 at 2,712 m, with an 18th-century parish where Santos Degollado was buried and a long calendar of patron-saint fiestas.
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  Jesús del Monte · Town · Estado de México
  Hill community of 30,396 people in Huixquilucan, near Interlomas; it grew from 161 residents in 1960 to over 30,000 today.
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  Juchitepec de Mariano Riva Palacio · Town · Estado de México
  The "hill of flowers", on high farmland between Chalco and Morelos: the Santo Domingo parish, the Señor de las Agonías feast in April and tecuí to toast with.
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  Los Reyes Acaquilpan · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of La Paz at the end of Metro Line A: an 18th-century Santos Reyes church, a pre-Hispanic pyramid and a big feast on 6 January.
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  Los Reyes Acozac · Town · Estado de México
  Tecámac town beside the Mexico–Pachuca highway, with a Three Kings feast on 6 January and a fair where cocol bread is thrown from rooftops.
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  Magdalena Chichicaspa · Town · Estado de México
  Otomí community in Huixquilucan above Naucalpan and Bosque Real: a parish from 1978, barbacoa and the Magdalena feast on 22 July.
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  Milpa Alta · Town · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's rural, Nahuatl-speaking south: nopal fields, a 16th-century Franciscan church, Zapata's barracks and the October mole fair.
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  Mixcoac · Town · Ciudad de México
  A former town swallowed by the city in 1928: a kiosk plaza, a Dominican convent, Gómez Farías's house and an Aztec pyramid beside the Periférico.
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  Nopaltepec · Town · Estado de México
  A plains town of nopal and maguey in the northeast of the state, with its Asunción parish and the Padre Tembleque aqueduct arches about 9 km away.
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  San Gregorio Atlapulco · Town · Ciudad de México
  Xochimilco's farming town below Teuhtli volcano: chinampas still worked, a patron-saint fiesta on 12 March and marigold fields for Day of the Dead.
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  San Juan Ixhuatepec · Town · Estado de México
  San Juanico, east Tlalnepantla: a church finished in 1616, a wax-mask carnival and the memory of the 1984 Pemex gas explosion.
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  San Juan Zitlaltepec · Town · Estado de México
  A Zumpango pueblo of 20,500 on the shore of the lagoon, with the parish of San Juan and the Cerro de la Estrella, the municipality's high point.
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  San Lucas Xolox · Town · Estado de México
  A Tecámac pueblo about 3 km from the AIFA airport, with an 18th-century parish church and stones of its 16th-century predecessor; surrounds Los Reyes Acozac.
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  San Luis Huexotla · Town · Estado de México
  A Texcoco village next to Chapingo, built among the ruins of an Acolhua city, with the smallest Franciscan friary and a tlacoyo fair.
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  San Marcos Jilotzingo · Town · Estado de México
  A Hueypoxtla pueblo of nearly 10,000 on maize land with marine fossils underfoot; patron feast of San Marcos on 25 April.
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  San Miguel Ajusco · Town · Ciudad de México
  An original Tlalpan village at about 2,900 m below the volcano: a 1707 church, St Michael fairs in May and September, and the gateway to the national park.
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  San Miguel Coatlinchán · Town · Estado de México
  Texcoco town the Tláloc monolith came from before it went to the Museo Nacional de Antropología in 1964; a replica stayed behind.
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  San Pablo Atlazalpan · Town · Estado de México
  Town in Chalco about 5 km from the centre, with an 18th-century church, a 1609 viceregal map and a tamale fair every December.
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  San Pedro Cuajimalpa · Town · Ciudad de México
  Original village and seat of its borough on the Mexico–Toluca road: a church begun in 1628, Jardín Hidalgo, the market and a huehuenches carnival.
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  San Rafael · Town · Estado de México
  A paper-mill town in Tlalmanalco at the foot of Iztaccíhuatl, with a Porfirian casino, French-style houses and forest waterfalls a few km away.
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  San Salvador Atenco · Town · Estado de México
  A town on the old shore of Lake Texcoco: a Franciscan chapel from 1571, cypress groves from Nezahualcóyotl's time and the 'two Mondays' feast.
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  San Salvador Cuauhtenco · Town · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta pueblo originario with a Baroque church of the Divino Salvador, a market by the atrium and an August 6-9 fiesta with seed-and-foliage portals.
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  San Ángel · Town · Ciudad de México
  Cobbled lanes, a Carmelite convent with tiled domes and mummies, the Saturday art bazaar on Plaza San Jacinto, and Rivera and Kahlo's twin studios.
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  Santa Ana Nextlalpan · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of Nextlalpan municipality in the Zumpango region, north of the Valley of Mexico; the Nahuatl name means 'on ash land'.
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  Santa María Tonanitla · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of Tonanitla, a municipality created only in 2003 after a century-long fight for autonomy; its fair for Nuestra Señora de los Remedios is on 1 September.
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  Santiago Cuautlalpan · Town · Estado de México
  Town in southern Texcoco of about 12,000 people that lives off making trophies; feast of Santiago Apóstol on 25 July.
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  Santiago Teyahualco · Town · Estado de México
  A Tultepec town whose 25 July feast for Santiago ends with more than 50 fireworks toritos, and whose old church lost its roof in the 1957 earthquake.
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  Tecámac de Felipe Villanueva · Town · Estado de México
  The old seat of Tecámac, birthplace of composer Felipe Villanueva, with a Holy Cross fair in May and the Mexibús running on to Felipe Ángeles airport.
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  Temascalapa · Town · Estado de México
  Municipal seat in the north of the Valley of Mexico, with a San Francisco parish, old haciendas, a weekend market and a feast on 4 October.
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  Tenango del Aire · Town · Estado de México
  Small seat below the volcanoes, with a 16th-century parish, a Divine Mercy shrine and the Casa de Madera museum.
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  Tepetlaoxtoc · Town · Estado de México
  An old Acolhua town north-east of Texcoco with a Dominican convent, Passion murals, Betanzos's hermitage and a big San Sebastián feast in January.
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  Tlalmanalco de Velázquez · Town · Estado de México
  A Franciscan-founded town below Iztaccíhuatl, with a 16th-century open chapel carved by Indigenous craftsmen and a small archaeology museum.
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  Tlalpan · Town · Ciudad de México
  Quiet cobbled centre of old San Agustín de las Cuevas, briefly capital of the State of Mexico, with a Barragán chapel and a 19th-century market.
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  Tlapanaloya · Town · Estado de México
  Old Otomí-Nahua altépetl in Tequixquiac with a Baroque Assumption parish, a colonial bridge over the Salado and a pulque house.
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  Tultitlán de Mariano Escobedo · Town · Estado de México
  Old San Antonio Tultitlán: Franciscan stone churches, an ancient cypress on the square and the June feast of San Antonio, close to the Suburbano train.
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  Xochimilco · Town · Ciudad de México
  The last of the Aztec lake world: about 170 km of canals and chinampas, a UNESCO site since 1987, toured by painted trajinera at an official 750 pesos an hour.
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  Zumpango de Ocampo · Town · Estado de México
  Seat of Zumpango beside the old lake: a Plateresque-Baroque parish, a Friday tianguis, blown-glass ornaments and the AIFA airport 8 km away.

Landmarks and museums

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  Alameda Central · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Laid out in 1592, the oldest public park in the Americas: fountains, the marble Juárez monument and Rivera's dream of a Sunday here.
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  Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Jesuit college turned museum where Mexican muralism was born: Orozco's frescoes wrap three floors of the main patio, a block from the Zócalo.
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  Arena México · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  The Cathedral of Lucha Libre in Colonia Doctores: masked wrestlers, flying dives and a roaring crowd every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday since 1956.
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  Basílica de Guadalupe · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's great Marian shrine at the foot of Tepeyac: the round 1976 basilica with Juan Diego's tilma, the tilting 1709 church and hilltop chapels.
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  Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Juan O'Gorman's 1931 twin houses in San Ángel, a red one for Diego and a blue one for Frida, joined by a rooftop bridge behind a fence of cactus.
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  Casa de los Azulejos · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  A counts' palace wrapped in blue-and-white Puebla tiles since 1737, now a Sanborns where you can eat under an Orozco mural.
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  Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  UNAM cultural centre in the former Automobile Club house on Chapultepec's Lago Mayor: film, music, workshops and exhibitions, almost all free.
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  Castillo de Chapultepec · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Hilltop castle of Maximilian and Carlota, later home to presidents and now the National History Museum, with murals, period rooms and views.
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  Catedral Metropolitana · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Built from 1573 to 1813 on the north side of the Zócalo: gilded Baroque altarpieces, 18th-century organs and archbishops' crypts; free to enter.
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  Centro Histórico · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  668 blocks over the ruins of Tenochtitlan, with some 1,500 listed buildings; a UNESCO site since 1987, revived since the 2000s.
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  Ciudad Universitaria · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  UNAM's 1950s campus on a lava field, a UNESCO site since 2007: O'Gorman's mosaic library, Siqueiros on the Rectoría, the Olympic stadium and MUAC.
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  Condesa · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Art Deco colonia built around an old racetrack: oval Avenida Ámsterdam, Parque México and Parque España, and pavement cafés under jacarandas.
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  Estadio GNP Seguros · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  The former Foro Sol in the Magdalena Mixhuca sports city: concerts for up to 65,000, the Vive Latino festival and baseball from 2000 to 2014.
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  Forum Buenavista · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Shopping mall opened in 2009 on top of the Buenavista rail yard, wired into the Metro, Metrobús, Suburbano and the AIFA train.
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  Mercado de Artesanías La Ciudadela · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's first crafts market, born for the 1968 Olympics: 350-plus stalls of alebrijes, ceramics, textiles and silver by Metro Balderas.
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  Mercado de Jamaica · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's flower market, open 24 hours: over 1,000 stalls of roses, orchids and arrangements, orange with cempasúchil each autumn.
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  Mercado de La Merced · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's biggest traditional market: blocks of chiles, nopales, piñatas and quesadilla stands just east of the Zócalo.
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  Mercado de San Juan · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  The chefs' market of the Centro: European cheeses, escamoles, crocodile and wild boar, with tapas and aguachile at the counters.
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  Mercado de Sonora · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  The 'witches' market' by La Merced: aisles of medicinal herbs, love candles, Santa Muerte figures, piñatas and clay pots.
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  Monumento a la Revolución · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Díaz's unfinished parliament turned Art Deco arch and mausoleum: ride the glass lift to the 360° deck, then climb to the lantern.
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  Museo Anahuacalli · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Diego Rivera's dark volcanic-stone temple-museum in Coyoacán, packed with pre-Hispanic pieces, stone mosaics and a rooftop view of the Pedregal.
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  Museo Dolores Olmedo · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Reopened in May 2026: the largest collection of Rivera and Kahlo in a 16th-century Xochimilco hacienda, with peacocks and hairless dogs in the gardens.
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  Museo Frida Kahlo · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Frida Kahlo's cobalt-blue Casa Azul in Coyoacán, where she was born and died: her studio, kitchen and garden. Tickets online only, by time slot.
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  Museo Nacional de Antropología · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's most visited museum: the Aztec Sun Stone, Olmec heads and Maya treasures around a courtyard roofed by a giant concrete umbrella.
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  Museo Nacional de Arte · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Five centuries of Mexican art, from viceregal altarpieces to Velasco, Rivera and Kahlo, in a gilded Porfirian palace on Calle Tacuba.
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  Museo Soumaya · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Carlos Slim's free art museum in a shimmering tower of 16,000 aluminium hexagons, with one of the world's largest Rodin collections on its top floor.
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  Palacio Nacional · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Seat of power on Moctezuma's palace grounds, home of Diego Rivera's 'Epic of the Mexican People' murals; free guided tours with ID.
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  Palacio Postal · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Adamo Boari's 1907 post office, still selling stamps under a glass roof, with a bronze double staircase and a postal museum upstairs.
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  Palacio de Bellas Artes · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Marble opera house at the Alameda: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros murals, a Tiffany glass curtain and the Ballet Folklórico on stage.
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  Paseo de la Reforma · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Maximilian's imperial boulevard: glorietas, monuments and skyscrapers like Torre Mayor, closed to cars on Sunday mornings for cycling.
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  Plaza Garibaldi · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's mariachi square since the 1920s: bands in charro suits play by the song, plus the Salón Tenampa and a tequila and mezcal museum.
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  Polanco · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's poshest colonia, north of Chapultepec: luxury boutiques on Masaryk, Pujol and Quintonil, Parque Lincoln and museums at its edges.
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  Presa Tacubaya · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Flood-control dam from 1936 on the Tacubaya river, ringed by neighbourhoods; the El Insurgente train viaduct crosses its basin.
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  Roma · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Leafy Porfirian colonia of some 1,100 early-1900s mansions, now Mexico City's food and gallery hub, with Michelin-starred tables and taco stands.
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  Tenayuca-Santa Cecilia · Landmark · Estado de México
  Two old villages in Tlalnepantla with Chichimec and Aztec pyramids, a 16th-century parish and barrio fiestas. A Barrio Mágico since 2024.
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  Tianguis de La Lagunilla · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Sunday antiques and flea market north of the Centro: tin toys, vinyl, old cameras and furniture along Comonfort, plus micheladas.
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  Torre Latinoamericana · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  The 1956 skyscraper that rode out the 1957 and 1985 earthquakes; its open-air deck on floor 44 looks straight down on Bellas Artes.
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  Zócalo · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's main square, about 240 m a side and pedestrian since 2024: the giant flag, the Grito on 15 September and record-breaking free concerts.
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  Ángel de la Independencia · Landmark · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's gilded Winged Victory, raised on Reforma for the 1910 centennial, with the independence heroes' tombs in its base.

Villages

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  El Hielo · Village · Estado de México
  High Huixquilucan community among Sierra de las Cruces pines at nearly 3,000 m, on the Naucalpan–Toluca road, with real cold in winter.
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  Hueypoxtla · Village · Estado de México
  Northern State of Mexico municipal seat with a parish consecrated in 1593, crypts under the floor, a colonial bridge and lamb barbacoa.
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  Ixtlahuaca de Cuauhtémoc · Village · Estado de México
  Plains village north-east of Temascalapa at 2,345 m, with bicycle taxis and a freight line crossing the fields; the name means "in front of the plain".
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  Iztapalapa de Cuitláhuac · Village · Ciudad de México
  Eight-barrio original village north of Cerro de la Estrella; the San Lucas church and the Holy Week Passion play are what visitors come for.
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  Jorobas · Village · Estado de México
  Locality of 2,983 people in Huehuetoca, beside the México-Querétaro toll road; a base for the Tajo de Nochistongo and Huehuetoca's centre.
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  La Magdalena Contreras · Village · Ciudad de México
  Old pueblo of Magdalena Atlitic: a baroque church, a monument since 1932, a market, the El Águila mill and the road up to the Los Dinamos forest.
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  La Purificación Tepetitla · Village · Estado de México
  Texcoco village 7 km from the city centre, with a Baroque parish built 1681-1771, a gilded altarpiece and a tradition tying it to Nezahualcóyotl's retreat.
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  Militar Marte · Village · Ciudad de México
  A 1950s planned colonia for army families, with streets named after beaches, the David Záizar park and a Christmas nativity scene.
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  Montecillo · Village · Estado de México
  Texcoco village on the México–Texcoco road, home of the Colegio de Postgraduados main campus and a short hop from Chapingo.
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  Ocopulco · Village · Estado de México
  Chiautla village with an 1800 church whose tower is red tezontle, home of Zapatista land-reform fighters, and a fireworks fiesta each 25 March.
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  Papalotla · Village · Estado de México
  Seat of the State of Mexico's smallest municipality: a Pueblo con Encanto with an 18th-century church, lamb barbacoa and a butterfly house.
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  Parres El Guarda · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Tlalpan pueblo originario at nearly 3,000 m on the old Cuernavaca road: hacienda ruins, lamb barbacoa and a stop on the railway bikeway.
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  Pueblo de Iztacalco · Village · Ciudad de México
  A former lake-island town in east Mexico City: Franciscan San Matías church, a market and barrio chapels, a short walk from Metro Iztacalco.
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  San Agustín Ohtenco · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta founding village, the youngest of the twelve, home to the paper balloon and lantern contest every Day of the Dead.
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  San Andrés Metla · Village · Estado de México
  Cocotitlán's second-largest village, the "place of many maguey"; a chapel to San Andrés, a mammoth find, and an 1885 photograph in INAH's archive.
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  San Andrés Totoltepec · Village · Ciudad de México
  An original village of Tlalpan below the Ajusco, with a 1770s church, a Thursday street market, a big feast on 30 November and the Cuernavaca bike path.
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  San Antonio Tecómitl · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta pueblo originario with a 16th-century Franciscan church, the Olla de Piedra chapel and one of the city's busiest Day of the Dead cemeteries.
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  San Diego Huehuecalco · Village · Estado de México
  Village south of Amecameca at 2,511 m, with a chapel to San Diego and a 13 to 16 November fiesta of rodeo and the dance of the Moors.
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  San Felipe Teotitlán · Village · Estado de México
  Largest locality in Nopaltepec, on the farming plain of Edomex's far northeast, about 5 km from the monumental arcade of the Tembleque aqueduct.
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  San Francisco Acuautla · Village · Estado de México
  A pueblo originario in Ixtapaluca, "forest among the water", now home to nearly 33,000; Franciscan parish and a 4 October procession.
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  San Francisco Zentlalpan · Village · Estado de México
  Village 3 km north of Amecameca, "on the land of corn cobs"; a chapel to San Francisco de Asís and a 4 October fiesta with brass bands.
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  San Gregorio Cuautzingo · Village · Estado de México
  Pueblo 4 km east of Chalco's centre with a stone parish church and a brief past as its own municipality (1875-1894).
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  San Jerónimo Lídice · Village · Ciudad de México
  Old village of Aculco with a 1713 baroque church, a 16th-century open chapel and a plaza that remembers Lidice every 10 June.
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  San Lorenzo Huipulco · Village · Ciudad de México
  Original village of Tlalpan by Estadio Azteca: a 17th-century chapel, cobbled streets, a food market and its own Tren Ligero station.
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  San Luis Ayucan · Village · Estado de México
  The biggest locality in Jilotzingo municipality, at 2,714 m in the Monte Alto range, spread over barrios among peaks above 3,000 m.
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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 Matías Cuijingo · Village · Estado de México
  A Juchitepec delegation at 2,500 m with a view of Popocatépetl, legends of an eagle and San Matías, and feasts in May and December.
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  San Pedro Atocpan · Village · Ciudad de México
  Milpa Alta's mole village: nearly everyone here grinds or sells mole almendrado, and each October it hosts the Feria Nacional del Mole.
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  Santa Ana Tlacotenco · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Milpa Alta pueblo among cornfields and nopal, with a 17th-century church, living Nahuatl and the feast of Santa Ana on 26 July.
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  Santa María Cuautepec · Village · Estado de México
  Smallest pueblo of Tultitlán at the foot of the Sierra de Guadalupe, with a 1737 Baroque chapel and feasts on 2 February and 15 August.
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  Santa María de Guadalupe · Village · Estado de México
  Ejido colony in Zumpango, 4,942 residents, about 4 km northwest of the seat, near the lagoon, the fireworks trade and the Circuito Exterior Mexiquense.
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  Santa Rosa Xochiac · Village · Ciudad de México
  Forest-edge village below the Desierto de los Leones, known for its Christmas trees, a 1.2 km sawdust carpet and a year of patron-saint festivals.
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  Santiago Acahualtepec · Village · Ciudad de México
  An original village of Iztapalapa that lived off tezontle quarrying: a church with an indigenous-style façade, a free community museum and a July 25 feast.
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  Santiago Tepopula · Village · Estado de México
  Farming village 2 km south of Tenango del Aire on the Sierra Nevada foothills; Santiago feast from 24 to 27 July.
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  Santo Tomás Ajusco · Village · Ciudad de México
  A Tlalpan founding village at 3,000 m with a 16th-century church and a pre-Hispanic stone in its atrium, on the way to Cumbres del Ajusco park.
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  Tacubaya · Village · Ciudad de México
  West Mexico City neighbourhood with Parque Lira, Casa de la Bola, Barragán's house and a hub of Metro, Metrobús and city buses.
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  Viaducto Piedad · Village · Ciudad de México
  Iztacalco neighbourhood by Metro Viaducto where a Chinese community settled: Chinese cafés, dim sum and shops along La Coruña and Camino Santa Anita.

Cities

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  Buenavista · City · Estado de México
  Tultitlán's largest colonia (216,776 people in 2020), by the Suburbano train at Lechería. Not Mexico City's Buenavista station.
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  Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias · City · Estado de México
  Old Chalca lordship on the shore of a vanished lake, with the Santiago Apóstol parish, a small museum and an elevated trolleybus to Santa Marta.
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  Chicoloapan de Juárez · City · Estado de México
  A city of about 193,000 in Mexico City's eastern metro area, with the San Vicente Mártir parish, barrio fiestas and a Mexibús link to Pantitlán.
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  Ciudad López Mateos · City · Estado de México
  Seat of Atizapán de Zaragoza and birthplace of President López Mateos: colonial churches, Presa Madín and Luis Barragán fountains.
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  Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl · City · Estado de México
  A million-plus city on the dry bed of Lake Texcoco: a giant coyote sculpture, a municipal zoo and Metro Line B.
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  Ciudad de México · City · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's capital, built over Aztec Tenochtitlan at 2,240 m: about 170 museums, 16 boroughs and some 9.2 million people in the city proper.
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  Cuautitlán · City · Estado de México
  Old Tepanec seat with a Baroque cathedral, a 16th-century atrial cross and a Tren Suburbano terminus.
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  Cuautitlán Izcalli · City · Estado de México
  A planned 1970s city with Charlotte Yazbek's sculpture park, the Espejo de los Lirios wetland and Lago de Guadalupe.
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  Ixtapaluca · City · Estado de México
  A State of Mexico seat on the México–Puebla highway with a 1531 parish, a spring national fair and the Acozac and Tlapacoya sites close by.
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  Naucalpan · City · Estado de México
  Not Naucalpan de Juárez: the built-up part of Huixquilucan that holds Interlomas, with 100 m+ towers and the Paseo Interlomas mall.
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  Naucalpan de Juárez · City · Estado de México
  A high-rise, industrial city on Mexico City's northwest edge, home to the Torres de Satélite, the Remedios sanctuary and a 50-arch colonial aqueduct.
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  Nicolás Romero · City · Estado de México
  A mill city on the northern edge of greater Mexico City, born of 19th-century textile factories; San Pedro parish, Teatro Centenario, Cahuacán woods.
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  San Francisco Coacalco · City · Estado de México
  Seat of Coacalco de Berriozábal: a Franciscan parish begun in 1580, an organ from 1791 and the Sierra de Guadalupe behind it.
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  San Pablo de las Salinas · City · Estado de México
  Old salt-making village of Tultitlán, now 158,000 people: a 17th-century church, 16th-century crosses and a 15,000-year-old mammoth find.
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  Santa María Chimalhuacán · City · Estado de México
  Seat of Chimalhuacán below Chimalhuachi hill: the Los Pochotes archaeological site, the 60 m Guerrero Chimalli and a stone-carving tradition.
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  Tlalnepantla · City · Estado de México
  An industrial city on Mexico City's northern edge with the Corpus Christi cathedral, municipal murals, two haciendas and the Tren Suburbano at hand.
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  Xico · City · Estado de México
  The city of Valle de Chalco, settled from the 1970s on the dry bed of Lake Chalco: a Porfirian hacienda, a community museum and an elevated trolleybus.

Mountains

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  Ajusco · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  Mexico City's own volcano: a fir-forest hike to the rocky Pico del Águila, close to 3,900 m, with views to Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.
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  Cerro Judío · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  A 2,750 m hill above San Bernabé Ocotepec, with a restored Otomí pyramid, three crosses at the top and views over the city.
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  Cerro San Miguel · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  The summit of Desierto de los Leones park at about 3,790 m: an 18th-century Carmelite chapel, a fire tower and views to the volcanoes. A long hike.
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  Cerro Xico · Mountain · Estado de México
  A near-perfect tuff ring in the old Lake Chalco bed, the so-called navel of the world, with fields in the crater and a community museum at its foot.
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  Cerro Zacatenco · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  The biggest hill in the city's far north, in the Sierra de Guadalupe: Preclassic villages on its slopes, antennas on top and the best view from the Cablebús.
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  Cerro del Chiquihuite · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  A 2,730 m volcanic dome in the Sierra de Guadalupe, topped by antennas and ringed by homes; Templo Mayor stone came from here. Cablebús Line 1 serves it.
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  Cerro del Tepeyac · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  The hill above the Basilica: 18th-century stairways, the Capilla del Cerrito with Fernando Leal's murals, a historic cemetery and a view of the valley.
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  Monte Tláloc · Mountain · Estado de México
  A 4,120 m volcano between Texcoco and Ixtapaluca with a shrine to the rain god on top, climbed on foot from Río Frío.
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  Papayo · Mountain · Estado de México
  A lava dome of about 3,600 m, the youngest and southernmost peak of the Sierra de Río Frío, between Telapón and Iztaccíhuatl.
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  Volcán Guadalupe · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  Highest peak of the Sierra de Santa Catarina on the Iztapalapa-Tláhuac line, with a crater, scrub and volcano views. Hike up from the Cablebús.
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  Volcán Teuhtli · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  Extinct 2,710 m volcano where Milpa Alta, Tláhuac and Xochimilco meet: a 30-minute climb to the crater, lava-tube caves and a Mass on 3 May.
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  Yuhualixqui · Mountain · Ciudad de México
  An extinct volcano of the Sierra de Santa Catarina above San Lorenzo Tezonco, a red tezontle hill that quarrying has cut to about 40% of its size.

Nature reserves

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  Bosque de Chapultepec · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  More than 800 hectares of forest in four sections: rowboats on the lakes, a free zoo, the castle hill and the city's great museums.
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  Bosque de San Juan de Aragón · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  A 162-hectare urban forest in northern Mexico City with a lake, a 5 km running loop and a free zoo next door; Metro Bosque de Aragón (Line B).
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  Bosque de Tlalpan · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  A 253-hectare urban park on Xitle lava: running tracks, mountain trails, a duck lake and traces of Cuicuilco. Open daily.
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  Cerro de la Estrella · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  Iztapalapa's hill, where the Mexica lit the New Fire every 52 years and where the Iztapalapa Passion play ends each Good Friday.
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  Desierto de los Leones · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  Mexico's first national park: fir forest above the city around a 17th-century Carmelite convent with hermitages and a whispering chapel.
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  Los Dinamos · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  Forested canyon of the Río Magdalena, the city's last living river: waterfalls, climbing walls, trout and old Porfirian power plants.
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  Parque Nacional Sacromonte · Nature reserve · Estado de México
  A 45-hectare sacred hill above Amecameca, a national park since 1939: the black Christ's cave shrine, a hilltop chapel and views of both volcanoes.
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  Parque nacional Fuentes Brotantes de Tlalpan · Nature reserve · Ciudad de México
  National park declared in 1936, with Ajusco springs, a lake of ducks and turtles, trails and food stalls; about 8 of its 129 hectares remain.

Archaeological sites

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  Acozac · Archaeological site · Estado de México
  Acolhua ruins in Ixtapaluca with a round temple to Ehécatl and a great platform facing the volcanoes; free entry.
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  Baños de Moctezuma · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  Pre-Hispanic water tank at the foot of Chapultepec hill plus the remains of an 1870 bathhouse; Moctezuma never bathed here, but the name stuck.
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  Copilco · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  A Preclassic village buried under Xitle's lava, tunnelled into by Manuel Gamio in 1917; its site museum closed to the public in the early 1980s.
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  Cuahilama · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  Hill with 15th-century petroglyphs in Santa Cruz Acalpixca, Xochimilco: free entry, a half-hour climb and views over the canals.
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  Cuicuilco · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  A round, terraced pyramid more than 2,000 years old, half-swallowed by lava from the Xitle volcano, free to visit beside Insurgentes Sur.
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  Templo Mayor · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  The Aztecs' great twin temple, unearthed after 1978 beside the Zócalo: walk through seven building stages, then see the Coyolxauhqui stone inside.
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  Tlatelolco · Archaeological site · Ciudad de México
  Aztec temples, a 1609 Franciscan church and modernist towers on one square: the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, site of the last stand of 1521 and of 1968.
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  Tlatilco · Archaeological site · Estado de México
  A Preclassic village famous for its figurines, now under the streets and factories of San Luis Tlatilco; there is no site to visit.

Lakes

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  Lago de Chalco · Lake · Ciudad de México
  The lake that was drained and came back: a wetland between Tláhuac and Valle de Chalco, protected since 2024, with pelicans in winter.
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  Lago de Guadalupe · Lake · Estado de México
  A 1930s reservoir on the west side of Cuautitlán Izcalli, a state protected area and a refuge for waterbirds within reach of Mexico City.
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  Lago de los Reyes Aztecas · Lake · Ciudad de México
  San Pedro Tláhuac's boat landing: trajineras past vegetable chinampas, herons and ducks, with fewer boats and crowds than Xochimilco.

Islands

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  Isla de las Muñecas · Island · Ciudad de México
  A chinampa deep in Xochimilco's canals hung with over a thousand weathered dolls, the life's work of a hermit; about 90 minutes by trajinera from Cuemanco.

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