Yauhquemehcan, Tlaxcala: 9 Places to Visit, Map & Guide

9 places with their own page in the municipality of Yauhquemehcan, in the state of Tlaxcala.

Map of Yauhquemehcan

Santa Úrsula Zimatepec · Town
Yauhquemehcan locality with a baroque church from about 1737, the Santa Úrsula fiesta on 21 October and a carnival of cuadrillas dances.
Atlihuetzía · Town
Village between Tlaxcala and Apizaco with waterfalls on the Zahuapan River and the ruined friary where child martyr Saint Cristóbal died.
San Benito Xaltocan · Town
Locality in Yauhquemehcan larger than its own municipal seat: 6,633 people in 2020; church of San Benito with two towers and a clock.
San José Tetel · Town
Second-largest locality in Yauhquemehcan (7,826 people in 2020), right beside Apizaco at 2,475 m, with its own carnival dance groups.
Yauhquemehcan · Town
Municipal seat beside Apizaco with a San Dionisio parish church from about 1670: grey stone façade, stucco tower and a huge gilded main altarpiece.

San Francisco Tlacuilohcan · Village
Village in Yauhquemehcan at 2,436 m, "place of scribes" in Nahuatl, with a St Francis church from 1787 and its own carnival camada.
El Rosario Ocotoxco · Village
Locality in Yauhquemehcan devoted to Our Lady of the Rosary, at 2,400 m and next to the Diocesan Seminary of Tlaxcala.
San Lorenzo Tlacualoyan · Village
A locality of Yauhquemehcan with an 18th-century church of San Lorenzo and a patron-saint fiesta on 10 August, with bells all night.

Ex Convento de Santa María de la Concepción Atlihuetzia · Landmark
Roofless 16th-century Franciscan ruin on Atlihuetzía's main square, open to the sky since the 18th century and now the shrine of the Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala.