9 Ruins near Chiautempan, Mexico: Map & Photos

9 archaeological sites · within 60 km

There are 9 archaeological sites within 60 km of Chiautempan in a straight line, an hour or a little more by road. The closest is Zona Arqueológica de Tizatlán, 4 km away; the farthest, Zona Arqueológica de Tecoaque, is 54 km. They are listed under the Pueblos Mágicos of Huejotzingo and Otumba, which make good bases.

Most archaeological sites are run by INAH and open from about 8 or 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a small fee. Midday is the hottest and busiest time, so go early.

Best months, when most of these towns are dry with comfortable afternoons: Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov.

The Ruins 9

Zona Arqueológica de Tizatlán · Archaeological site · 4 km from Chiautempan · Near Huejotzingo
Seat of a Tlaxcalan lordship where the alliance with Cortés was sealed, with painted altars beside a 16th-century open chapel.
Ocotelulco · Archaeological site · 5 km from Chiautempan · Tlaxcala
Temple and painted altar of Maxixcatzin's lordship, with a site museum, in San Francisco Ocotelulco, 3 km from Tlaxcala city. Free entry.
Tepeticpac · Archaeological site · 6 km from Chiautempan · Tlaxcala
Pre-Hispanic hilltop fortress above Santiago Tepeticpac, 5 km north of Tlaxcala city: walls, terraces, watchtowers and views over the valley.
Cacaxtla-Xochitécatl · Archaeological site · 17 km from Chiautempan · Near Huejotzingo
Twin hilltop sites across the Tlaxcala line, famous for vivid Maya-style murals of a battle, preserved under a huge roof.
Xochitécatl · Archaeological site · 18 km from Chiautempan · 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.
Los Cerritos de Tepatlaxco · Archaeological site · 27 km from Chiautempan · 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.
Tlalancaleca (zona arqueológica) · Archaeological site · 36 km from Chiautempan · Puebla
Formative-period city at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, among central Mexico's largest before Teotihuacan; it outlived a Popocatépetl eruption.
Hueyatlaco · Archaeological site · 44 km from Chiautempan · 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.
Zona Arqueológica de Tecoaque · Archaeological site · 54 km from Chiautempan · Near Otumba
A small Acolhua site in Tlaxcala where a Spanish caravan was captured and sacrificed in 1520.