Puebla Valley

Pueblos Mágicos in Puebla Valley

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Places to visit in Puebla Valley 149

149 places with their own page, grouped by kind.

Villages · 82 Towns · 38 Landmarks and museums · 16 Cities · 3 Mountains · 3 Archaeological sites · 3 Nature reserves · 2 Lagoons · 1 Waterfalls · 1

Villages

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  Ahuatepec · Village · Puebla
  Trading junta auxiliar of Tecali de Herrera at 2,000 m in the Puebla valley; the colonial pueblo of Santa María Ahuatepec, now home to almost 5,000.
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  Analco de Ponciano Arriaga · Village · Puebla
  Santa Cruz Analco, "across the water": a vegetable- and flower-growing village of San Salvador el Verde, at 2,380 m below Iztaccíhuatl.
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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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  Atzitzihuacán · Village · Puebla
  Village on the northern edge of Puebla's Mixteca by the Morelos line near Atlixco, with a 16th-century church of Santiago and a fiesta on 25 July.
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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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  Barrio de Nuevo León · Village · Puebla
  Neighbourhood-village of Cuautlancingo, 4 km from Cholula, within the Puebla metropolitan area, with about 3,000 people.
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  Buenavista Tetela · Village · Puebla
  Rural community in the south of Puebla municipality at 2,060 m; Tetela is Nahuatl for "stony ground", a place full of rocks.
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  Cacaloxúchitl · Village · Puebla
  "Peanut flower" in Nahuatl: a Huaquechula village at 1,627 m in the Atlixco valley, among farm fields and rivers running down from the Sierra Nevada.
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  Cháhuac · Village · Puebla
  Hamlet of Domingo Arenas, 5 km from Huejotzingo, on land once held by Huexotzinco's nobility and later by the Cháhuac hacienda.
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  Cohuecan · Village · Puebla
  Pottery village in the Atlixco valley almost surrounded by Morelos, with churches of San Bartolomé and Jesús Nazareno; "in the dangerous place".
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  Cuanalá · Village · Puebla
  San Mateo Cuanalá, seat of Juan C. Bonilla in the Cholula valley: the San Mateo parish church, a 21 September feast and brickworks.
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  Cuautinchán · Village · Puebla
  Village south-east of Puebla with a Renaissance Franciscan convent by Francisco Becerra (1590) and paintings attributed to Simón Pereyns.
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  Dieciocho de Marzo · Village · Puebla
  Community of the municipality of Puebla south of the city, near Santo Tomás Chautla, named after the 1938 oil expropriation.
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  Jesús Tepactepec · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Natívitas municipality, almost joined to the seat, with the sanctuary of Padre Jesús de los Tres Caminos and its March festival.
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  La Magdalena Yancuitlalpan · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tochimilco on the slopes of Popocatépetl, "on the new land", about 17 km from the Pueblo Mágico of Atlixco.
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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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  Lomas de Angelópolis · Village · Puebla
  Residential development founded in 2013 in Ocoyucan, inside the Angelópolis zone, about 15 minutes from Puebla and Cholula.
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  Los Reyes Tlanechicolpan · Village · Puebla
  Village of San Jerónimo Tecuanipan 5 km from Cholula, dedicated to the Three Kings; its Nahuatl name means "meeting place".
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  Los Ángeles Tetela · Village · Puebla
  Farming village in the far south of Puebla municipality, on the southern shore of the Valsequillo reservoir, at about 2,100 m.
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  Mazapiltepec de Juárez · Village · Puebla
  Village on the plains of east-central Puebla, "on the hill of the fawn", with a church of Saint Margaret of Antioch.
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  Natívitas · Village · Tlaxcala
  Southern Tlaxcala seat once called "España Chiquita": a baroque parish, ruined Franciscan convent walls, and Cacaxtla just 3 km away.
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  Rinconada · Village · Puebla
  Old Mexican Railway station in Mazapiltepec where, in May 1920, Carranza's horse was shot from under him as he fled toward Veracruz.
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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 Andrés Azumiatla · Village · Puebla
  A farming junta auxiliar in the far south of Puebla municipality, beyond the Valsequillo reservoir, home to 11,692 people.
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  San Andrés Cuamilpa · Village · Tlaxcala
  Tetlatlahuca village whose Nahuatl name means "in the wooded milpa"; church of Saint Andrew the Apostle.
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  San Antonio Cacalotepec · Village · Puebla
  San Andrés Cholula village with an 18th-century neoclassical church, a charrería school and a June feast of palm baskets heaped with fruit.
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  San Antonio Mihuacán · Village · Puebla
  Coronango village of 8,491 people in 2020 near the Prieto river, whose name is read as place of arrows, of cornfields or of agaves.
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  San Baltazar Atlimeyaya · Village · Puebla
  "Where water springs": a Tianguismanalco village at the foot of Popocatépetl, 10 km from Atlixco, in a district of forest, streams and trout.
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  San Baltazar Tetela · Village · Puebla
  Puebla city district on a peninsula that splits the Valsequillo reservoir in two; its Nahuatl name means "stony ground".
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  San Bartolomé Tenango · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village in Tetlatlahuca with a 19th-century church of San Bartolomé, its tower topped by a tiled dome; fiesta on 24 August.
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  San Bernabé Capula · Village · Tlaxcala
  Natívitas village, "place where capulines abound", with a chapel of San Bernabé and an auxiliary president chosen by custom.
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  San Bernabé Temoxtitla · Village · Puebla
  A village in Ocoyucan municipality, close to Cholula and Puebla, among the maize plots, orchards and beehives of the Puebla valley.
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  San Bernardino Chalchihuapan · Village · Puebla
  Ocoyucan village tucked inside an old volcanic dome, ringed by hills used for paragliding and one crowned by a church overlooking the Puebla valley.
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  San Buenaventura Nealtican · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Nealtican, "place where I bathe", below Popocatépetl, beside a lava field with quarries and a parish church finished in 1739.
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  San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo · Village · Puebla
  An auxiliary borough of San Martín Texmelucan, at 2,320 m in the irrigated Atoyac valley; its Nahuatl name means 'in the little stone house'.
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  San Cristóbal Tepatlaxco · Village · Puebla
  Texmelucan village on highway 190 below Cerro Totolqueme, which lends its name to the pre-Hispanic mounds of Tepatlaxco.
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  San Felipe Teotlalcingo · Village · Puebla
  "Little valley of the gods" at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, beside the Izta-Popo park, with a 17th-century parish and brickworks.
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  San Francisco Cuapan · Village · Puebla
  Village of San Pedro Cholula beside Cerro Zapotecas, 6 km from Cholula and about 17 km from downtown Puebla.
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  San Francisco Huilango · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tochimilco on the slopes of Popocatépetl, "where logs are dragged", about 18 km from Atlixco.
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  San Francisco Ocotlán · Village · Puebla
  Auxiliary town of Coronango in metropolitan Puebla, where in 1856 President Comonfort defeated the Zacapoaxtla rebels.
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  San Gabriel Popocatla · Village · Tlaxcala
  Ixtacuixtla village in western Tlaxcala, known for papier-mâché workshops that build catrinas up to 4 m tall, alebrijes and piñatas.
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  San Gregorio Atzompa · Village · Puebla
  Seat of its own municipality 6 km from Cholula, with a 16th-century parish to Saint Gregory, pottery and chiles en nogada with local walnuts.
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  San Gregorio Zacapechpan · Village · Puebla
  An auxiliary borough of San Pedro Cholula, 4 km from central Cholula; its Nahuatl name means 'on the hay' and it is the municipality's third-largest locality.
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  San Hipólito Xochiltenango · Village · Puebla
  Large village of Tepeaca, "at the wall of flowers", in the farming valley that had one of Puebla's first Franciscan convents.
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  San Jerónimo Almoloya · Village · Puebla
  Village of Cuautinchán, "where water springs", between the Sierra de Amozoc and the Tepeaca valley, known for the dances at its festivals.
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  San Jerónimo Coyula · Village · Puebla
  "Where rattles abound": a village of 7,750 people 9 km from Atlixco, in the valley of flowers and avocados below the volcanoes.
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  San Jerónimo Ocotitlán · Village · Puebla
  An auxiliary borough of Acajete on the Puebla-Tehuacán highway, a potters' village founded in the 13th century by a ravine; 'place among lynxes'.
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  San Jerónimo Tecuanipan · Village · Puebla
  "Where fierce animals live": a seat of 2,545 people 11 km from Cholula, with a 16th-century church and carved metates.
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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 Juan Tuxco · Village · Puebla
  Village of San Martín Texmelucan at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, "among the rabbits", with a parish church of San Juan and a chapel of the Sacrament.
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  San Lorenzo Chiautzingo · Village · Puebla
  Seat of Chiautzingo, "in the little marsh", on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Huejotzingo, with carnival in its barrios.
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  San Lucas el Grande · Village · Puebla
  The largest town in San Salvador el Verde, at 2,317 m below Iztaccíhuatl, among tejocote orchards, flower fields and black-stone workshops.
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  San Luis Coyotzingo · Village · Puebla
  Village in Huejotzingo with a pre-Hispanic mound dedicated to Camaxtli and an Indigenous wheat mill from 1559; a chacmool turned up here in 1973.
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  San Luis Tehuiloyocan · Village · Puebla
  Village of San Andrés Cholula, "land of beautiful stone", with a Saint Louis feast on 19 August and a yearly visit from the Virgin of Los Remedios.
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  San Mateo Ayecac · Village · Tlaxcala
  Locality of Tepetitla on the Atoyac river, with a 19th-century church of San Mateo and a fiesta on 21 September.
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  San Mateo Ozolco · Village · Puebla
  "On the old road": a Calpan village at 2,674 m, stretched along a ridge between wooded ravines coming down from the Sierra Nevada.
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  San Miguel Papaxtla · Village · Puebla
  Village at the foot of Cerro Tecajete, in San Jerónimo Tecuanipan, whose residents own the hill and quarry its tezontle.
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  San Miguel Xochitecatitla · Village · Tlaxcala
  Village of 2,199 people at the foot of the Xochitécatl archaeological zone, with a parish church to Saint Michael the Archangel.
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  San Pedro Benito Juárez · Village · Puebla
  The inhabited village closest to Popocatépetl's crater, about 11 km away, on the volcano's slopes in the municipality of Atlixco.
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  San Pedro Zacachimalpa · Village · Puebla
  "On the shield of grass": a community on the southern edge of Puebla's capital municipality, near Africam Safari and the Valsequillo reservoir.
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  San Salvador el Verde · Village · Puebla
  Farming town in western Puebla, the old Xopalican, "green place", in a municipality that climbs to the summit of Iztaccíhuatl.
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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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  Sanctorum · Village · Puebla
  Cuautlancingo community of over 35,000 people, about 8 km from Puebla, among fields, new neighbourhoods and the Volkswagen industrial belt.
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  Santa Ana Portales · Village · Tlaxcala
  A locality of 968 people in Tetlatlahuca at 2,188 m, with the chapel of Santa Ana and San Joaquín, about 20 km from Huejotzingo.
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  Santa Ana Xalmimilulco · Village · Puebla
  Huejotzingo village right on the México–Puebla highway at the Tlaxcala line, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl to the west.
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  Santa Clara Ocoyucan · Village · Puebla
  "Place of the owners of ocote pines": seat of Ocoyucan, south of Cholula, with a 16th-century church, henequen, cherimoya and the tonchis dance.
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  Santa Cruz Alpuyeca · Village · Puebla
  A hamlet of 630 people in northwest Cuautinchán, linked by dirt road to its municipal seat and to Amozoc, only 14 km from Puebla city.
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  Santa Isabel Cholula · Village · Puebla
  Municipal seat in the Cholula valley between Atlixco and Popocatépetl, with a 16th-century parish church, its own cider since 1920 and striking dance costumes.
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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 Acuexcomac · Village · Puebla
  Village of San Pedro Cholula, "at the water store", west of the city, in one of Mexico's longest-inhabited valleys.
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  Santa María Atexcac · Village · Puebla
  Village of Huejotzingo at 2,400 m on the eastern slope of Iztaccíhuatl, "in the water that springs from the rock", with upper and lower quarters.
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  Santa María Malacatepec · Village · Puebla
  "On the hill of the spindle": an Ocoyucan village southwest of Puebla, land of cherimoya, honey and henequen scrubbers.
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  Santa María Moyotzingo · Village · Puebla
  Large town south of Texmelucan with a Preclassic pyramid base, the tepematzin, that looks like a little hill in the middle of town.
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  Santa María Nenetzintla · Village · Puebla
  Village in the municipality of Acajete, in the Tepeaca valley below La Malinche; its name means "place of many idols".
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  Santa María Texmelucan · Village · Puebla
  Village of Tlahuapan at the foot of Iztaccíhuatl, "place of little oaks", with a Holy Week procession that lasts all night.
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  Santiago Acatlán · Village · Puebla
  "Place of reeds" beside Tepeaca: a village of over nine thousand among maize fields, in a municipality known for its wrought iron.
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  Santiago Xalitzintla · Village · Puebla
  The closest inhabited village to Popocatépetl's crater, 12 km away, whose people revere the volcano as Don Goyo.
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  Santo Tomás Chautla · Village · Puebla
  Village of the municipality of Puebla, merged with the city north-west of the Valsequillo reservoir, on Boulevard Carlos Camacho.
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  Signoret · Village · Puebla
  Neighbourhood of San Salvador Chachapa in Amozoc, east of Puebla city, beneath the Sierra de Amozoc and Flor del Bosque park.
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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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  Tianguismanalco · Village · Puebla
  Village at the foot of Popocatépetl, "at the levelled market", beside the Nealtican malpaís, a lava field covered in pine-oak forest.
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  Tlaltenango · Village · Puebla
  Small municipal seat in metropolitan Puebla beside Huejotzingo, founded in 1527, with a parish church of San Pedro Apóstol and a brick-and-tile tradition.

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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  Amozoc de Mota · Town · Puebla
  Town 18 km east of Puebla, famous for its charro ironwork: spurs, bits and saddle trees inlaid with silver, and its Franciscan convent.
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  La Magdalena Tetela Morelos · Town · Puebla
  Acajete sub-municipality at 2,309 m between the slopes of La Malinche and the Tepeaca valley; 7,613 people, patron Mary Magdalene.
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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 Damián Texóloc · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat of just over 10 km², of pre-Hispanic origin and a milk-and-farming economy; parish of San Damián.
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  San Felipe Hueyotlipan · Town · Puebla
  Auxiliary town on the north side of Puebla city, home of the CAPU bus terminal; it was a municipality of its own until 1962.
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  San Jerónimo Zacualpan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Southern Tlaxcala town with a clock-tower church, tule weaving, carnival charros and a San Jerónimo fiesta on 30 September.
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  San Jorge Tezoquipan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality in Panotla, 4,881 people in 2020, with a church of San Jorge and a Nahuatl name meaning "on the rocky mud".
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  San Juan Cuautlancingo · Town · Puebla
  Seat of Cuautlancingo, north of Cholula in the Puebla metro area; a pre-Hispanic town with a coat of arms granted in 1589.
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  San Juan Huactzinco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Bread-baking town in southern Tlaxcala with a Franciscan church from 1670, carnival costumes and a San Juan Apóstol fiesta on 27 December.
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  San Lorenzo Almecatla · Town · Puebla
  Town in Cuautlancingo north of Puebla, scene of the Battle of San Lorenzo against the French army on 8 May 1863.
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  San Lorenzo Axocomanitla · Town · Tlaxcala
  One of Mexico's smallest municipalities: a 17th-century church, San Lorenzo's fiesta on 10 August and fibre basketry.
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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 Matías Tlalancaleca · Town · Puebla
  Municipal seat in western Puebla, "the place of hidden houses", with its patron-saint fair on 24 and 25 February.
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  San Miguel Xoxtla · Town · Puebla
  Small municipality on the northern edge of the Puebla metro area by Tlaxcala, "abundance of flowers", split from Tlaltenango in 1940.
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  San Rafael Tlanalapan · Town · Puebla
  Town in San Martín Texmelucan, "land across the river", home in mid-August to the National Chile Poblano Fair.
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  San Vicente Xiloxochitla · Town · Tlaxcala
  Natívitas community known as the cradle of the taco de canasta, with its fair on the first Sunday of December.
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  Santa Ana Nopalucan · Town · Tlaxcala
  Municipal seat in south-western Tlaxcala, a former producer of reed and salt, with the church of Santa Ana and a feast on 26 July.
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  Santa Apolonia Teacalco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Basket-making municipality in the Natívitas valley: huejote and pirul baskets, the church of Santa Apolonia and a fiesta on 9 February.
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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 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 Justina Ecatepec · Town · Tlaxcala
  Second-largest locality in Ixtacuixtla (5,122 people in 2020), on highway 117 between Tlaxcala and San Martín Texmelucan.
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  Santa María Coronango · Town · Puebla
  Seat of Coronango, north of Cholula, with the church of Santa María de la Asunción, begun in 1521 and finished in 1707.
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  Santa María Zacatepec · Town · Puebla
  Town in Juan C. Bonilla beside Puebla's airport and federal highway 190, where a 130 m sinkhole opened in 2021.
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  Santiago Michac · Town · Tlaxcala
  The most populous locality in Natívitas: church of Santiago Apóstol, a fiesta on 23-26 July and a short hop from Cacaxtla.
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  Santiago Momoxpan · Town · Puebla
  Town of San Pedro Cholula between Cholula and Puebla city, now part of the metropolitan area, with over 20,000 people.
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  Santo Tomás la Concordia · Town · Tlaxcala
  Natívitas town founded after a flood, with Saint Thomas and Saint Sebastian as patrons and a moros y cristianos dance.
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  Tecali de Herrera · Town · Puebla
  The "house of stone": a town of onyx and marble workshops facing the roofless ruins of a 16th-century Franciscan friary.
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  Tenancingo · Town · Tlaxcala
  A town in southern Tlaxcala next to Puebla, with the San Miguel parish and a carnival of toreros and charros.
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  Tepeaca · Town · Puebla
  Valley town Cortés founded in 1520, with a battlemented Franciscan friary, a 16th-century Mudéjar rollo and a Friday market that starts before dawn.
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  Tepetitla de Lardizábal · Town · Tlaxcala
  A seat beside San Martín Texmelucan, with the church of San Mateo (fiesta 21 September), reed work and fireworks.
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  Tetlatlahuca · Town · Tlaxcala
  A municipal seat with the parish of Santa Isabel (fiesta 19 November), tule crafts and an ancient settlement on the Cerro de La Cruz.
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  Villa Alta · Town · Tlaxcala
  Locality in Tepetitla de Lardizábal with the former San Pedro Rojano hacienda and an April fair for the Señor de la Era.
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  Villa Mariano Matamoros · Town · Tlaxcala
  Seat of Ixtacuixtla, with the Franciscan ex-convent of San Felipe (1554-1585) and the tile-covered Calvario church and staircase.
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  Xicohtzinco · Town · Tlaxcala
  Santo Toribio Xicohtzinco, on the Puebla border: a twin-towered parish church built 1801-1803, a 16 April feast and a chivarrudos carnival.
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  Zacatelco · Town · Tlaxcala
  South Tlaxcala town between Puebla and the state capital: the Baroque Santa Inés parish, frothy cacao drink and the chivarrudos carnival dance.

Landmarks and museums

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  Biblioteca Palafoxiana · Landmark · Puebla
  Founded in 1646 as the first public library in the Americas: a 1773 vaulted hall with three tiers of carved shelves and about 45,000 old books.
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  Callejón de los Sapos · Landmark · Puebla
  Colourful colonial alley named for the toads of old floods, with antique shops, cantinas and a weekend flea market that peaks on Sunday.
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  Capilla de San Ildefonso · Landmark · Puebla
  17th-century chapel on Avenida Reforma in Puebla, beside San Marcos, with a grey stone doorway and a painted neoclassical altar in 21 panels.
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  Capilla del Rosario · Landmark · Puebla
  The 'House of Gold' inside Santo Domingo church: a 1690 Baroque chapel covered floor to dome in gilded stucco, angels and Talavera tile. Free.
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  Catedral de Puebla · Landmark · Puebla
  Consecrated in 1649, with twin 70-metre towers, a high altar by Manuel Tolsá and an 8.5-tonne bell that legend says angels hung. Free.
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  Estadio Cuauhtémoc · Landmark · Puebla
  The "Coloso de Maravillas", home of Club Puebla, a venue for two World Cups (1970 and 1986) and Latin America's first stadium clad in ETFE.
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  Exconvento de Santa María Magdalena · Landmark · Puebla
  Baroque Dieguino convent in central San Martín Texmelucan, a national monument since 1933, with Churrigueresque altarpieces and a 1794 German organ.
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  Fuerte de Guadalupe · Landmark · Puebla
  Fort on Acueyametepec hill whose cannon shot opened the Battle of 5 May 1862; now an INAH museum with views over Puebla.
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  Gruta de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes · Landmark · Puebla
  A grotto-shaped chapel of dark volcanic stone on Puebla's Calzada de los Fuertes, modelled on the Massabielle cave, with a spring at the Virgin's feet.
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  Museo Amparo · Landmark · Puebla
  Superb pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary art in the city's first hospital, with a rooftop terrace facing the cathedral towers. Free on Sundays.
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  Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos · Landmark · Puebla
  Railway museum in Puebla's old Ferrocarril Mexicano station, opened by Juárez in 1869, with steam locomotives and a presidential carriage.
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  Parroquia de San José · Landmark · Puebla
  Baroque church in the San José barrio north of central Puebla, with a talavera-tiled front, eight gilded altarpieces and the chapel of Jesús Nazareno.
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  Presa de Valsequillo · Landmark · Puebla
  Puebla's largest body of water, a 1946 reservoir south of the city and a Ramsar site since 2012, with migratory birds, boat rides and Africam on its shore.
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  San Francisco "El Origen" · Landmark · Puebla
  The four barrios where Puebla began: San Francisco, El Alto, Analco and La Luz, with a Franciscan church, crafts market and pottery. Barrio Mágico since 2024.
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  San Pedro Museo de Arte · Landmark · Puebla
  Museum in the old Hospital of San Pedro, from 1541, in central Puebla: colonial painting, a great arcaded courtyard and nearly 300 years of medical history.
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  Santuario de San Miguel del Milagro · Landmark · Tlaxcala
  National Shrine of St Michael, built where tradition places the 1631 apparition to Diego Lázaro, beside Cacaxtla; pilgrims come for the water of its well.

Cities

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  Puebla · City · Puebla
  Founded in 1531 as the City of the Angels: a tiled, domed UNESCO centro, the home of mole poblano and Talavera, two hours from Mexico City.
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  San Martín Texmelucan · City · Puebla
  Market city in western Puebla, 32 km from the capital, known for its huge Tuesday clothing tianguis and the poblano chiles of Tlanalapan.
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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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  Cerro de San Juan · Mountain · Puebla
  The hill of Puebla's La Paz district, west of downtown: Forey's camp in 1863 and Porfirio Díaz's in 1867, now topped by the Iglesia del Cielo.
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  Cuexcomate · Mountain · Puebla
  The "world's smallest volcano", actually an extinct 13 m geyser cone on the square of La Libertad in Puebla city; a spiral staircase leads inside.
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  Tecajete · Mountain · Puebla
  A 2,460 m cinder cone by San Miguel Papaxtla in the Puebla valley; a short, steep path climbs to its crater and two peaks.

Archaeological sites

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  Hueyatlaco · Archaeological site · Puebla
  Dig site at Valsequillo south of Puebla whose stone tools were dated to about 250,000 years ago, one of archaeology's great controversies.
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  Los Cerritos de Tepatlaxco · Archaeological site · Puebla
  Nine pyramid bases on the rims of ravines on the slopes of Cerro Totolqueme, inhabited from 300 BC to 600 AD, just outside Texmelucan.
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  Xochitécatl · Archaeological site · Tlaxcala
  A ceremonial centre begun about 800 BC on an extinct volcano's summit, with the Pyramid of the Flowers and the round Spiral Building, facing Cacaxtla.

Nature reserves

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  Cerro Zapotecas · Nature reserve · Puebla
  Volcanic hill of 2,380 m, 3 km from central Cholula, a state park since 2008, with pre-Hispanic remains and trails for hiking and biking.
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  Cuenca del Valsequillo · Nature reserve · Puebla
  Basin south of Puebla city with the Valsequillo reservoir, the state's most important, and sites such as Hueyatlaco, at the heart of a long debate about the first Americans.

Lagoons

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  Laguna de Acomulco · Lagoon · Tlaxcala
  A lagoon of about 20,000 m² in Zacatelco's fourth section, fed by springs and under restoration since the 2010s.

Waterfalls

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  Cascadas de Ahuehuetla · Waterfall · Puebla
  Turquoise pools below a drop of about 10 m, reached on foot under ahuehuete trees from San Agustín Ahuehuetla, in Huehuetlán el Grande.

Top tours in Puebla Valley

Cholula Puebla, Cholula & Tonantzintla Day Trip with Optional Lunch ★ 4.5 (1,926) 11 h From US$55

Cholula Puebla and Cholula Day Trip from Mexico City ★ 3.8 (278) 10–12 h From US$68

San Mateo Ayecac Africam Safari Zoo Admission with Transportation ★ 4.8 (87) 5 h From US$35

San Mateo Ayecac Iztaccihuatl Volcano Hiking Tour from Puebla ★ 5.0 (81) 8–9 h From US$179

San Mateo Ayecac Cholula tour from Puebla ★ 4.9 (81) 3–4 h From US$82

San Mateo Ayecac Town walking tour of the city ★ 4.9 (80) 2–3 h From US$36

San Mateo Ayecac Cholula Magical Town on a Traditional Tram from Puebla in Spanish ★ 4.4 (67) 5 h From US$14

Cholula Private Tour to Cholula and Puebla ★ 4.8 (64) 7–8 h From US$260

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