Toluca

Map of Toluca

Places to visit in Toluca

Towns · 2 Villages · 7 Archaeological sites · 1 Nature reserves · 1

Towns

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  Cacalomacán · Town
  Old village south of Toluca at the foot of the Nevado: 18th-century churches, hacienda land turned ejido, and a community-run ecological park on the volcano.
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  San Felipe Tlalmimilolpan · Town
  Pueblo originario south of Toluca with cobbled streets, cambaya looms, the Paseo de Los Locos and fairs of pulque, pozole and harvest.

Villages

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  Santa Ana Tlapaltitlán · Village
  Old farming village now wrapped into Toluca: palm baskets, San Isidro in May and quintonil tamales at the Santa Ana feast in July.
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  San Mateo Otzacatipan · Village
  Old lakeside village now merged into Toluca: once a charal-fishing community, today home to the airport and the Central de Abastos.
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  San Marcos Yachihuacaltepec · Village
  Toluca delegación below the Calixtlahuaca hill; three names, a legend of saints' images that kept returning to the church, and 6,250 people.
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  San Mateo Oxtotitlán · Village
  Large Toluca delegación, "next to the caves"; San Mateo fiesta with mojigangas and a Passion play staged up a real hill every Holy Week.
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  San Juan Tilapa · Village
  Old village south of Toluca, "black river" in Nahuatl, with a San Juan fiesta on 24 June and a muleteers' dance outside the church.
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  San Martín Toltepec · Village
  Toluca delegación north of the city, "on the hill of the reeds", with a catalogued stone chapel and about 2,700 residents for a decade now.
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  San Antonio Buenavista · Village
  Pueblo originario south of Toluca, almost at the foot of the Nevado, that marks Saint Anthony of Padua every 13 June with mañanitas, a band and flowers.

Archaeological sites

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  Zona Arqueológica de Calixtlahuaca · Archaeological site
  Matlatzinca and Aztec ruins on a hillside north of Toluca, known for a round temple to the wind god Ehécatl.

Nature reserves

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  Parque Estatal Sierra Morelos · Nature reserve
  1,255 hectares of wooded hills and lakes on Toluca's northern edge: trails of up to 9 km, picnic shelters and an axolotl house under repair.

Neighbouring municipalities

Zinacantepec · 4 Lerma · 6 Ocoyoacac · 3 Tenango del Valle · 5 Jiquipilco · 3 Huixquilucan · 5 Ixtlahuaca · 3 Tenancingo · 3

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