San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla: 8 Places to Visit

8 places with their own page in the municipality of San Martín Texmelucan, in the state of Puebla.

Map of San Martín Texmelucan

San Martín Texmelucan · City
Market city in western Puebla, 32 km from the capital, known for its huge Tuesday clothing tianguis and the poblano chiles of Tlanalapan.

San Rafael Tlanalapan · Town
Town in San Martín Texmelucan, "land across the river", home in mid-August to the National Chile Poblano Fair.

Santa María Moyotzingo · Village
Large town south of Texmelucan with a Preclassic pyramid base, the tepematzin, that looks like a little hill in the middle of town.
San Buenaventura Tecaltzingo · Village
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'.
San Juan Tuxco · Village
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.
San Cristóbal Tepatlaxco · Village
Texmelucan village on highway 190 below Cerro Totolqueme, which lends its name to the pre-Hispanic mounds of Tepatlaxco.

Los Cerritos de Tepatlaxco · Archaeological site
Nine pyramid bases on the rims of ravines on the slopes of Cerro Totolqueme, inhabited from 300 BC to 600 AD, just outside Texmelucan.

Exconvento de Santa María Magdalena · Landmark
Baroque Dieguino convent in central San Martín Texmelucan, a national monument since 1933, with Churrigueresque altarpieces and a 1794 German organ.