Ciudad López Mateos
Ciudad López Mateos is a city in the State of Mexico, Mexico, and the municipal seat of the municipality called Atizapán de Zaragoza.
Ciudad López Mateos is a city in the State of Mexico, Mexico, and the municipal seat of the municipality called Atizapán de Zaragoza. The city was previously named San Francisco Atizapán, but the official name was changed after president Adolfo López Mateos, who was born in that town. However, the city is still commonly known as Atizapán. There were 489,160 inhabitants according to the 2010 census. It is the seventh-largest city in the state. It includes the upscale neighborhood Zona Esmeralda.
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Worth seeing in and around Ciudad López Mateos
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Los Remedios National Park
Los Remedios National Park is a national park in Mexico, located in the far west of the municipality of Naucalpan in Mexico State, just northwest of Mexico City. The park was established by federal decree in 1938 with an area of 400 hectares.
9.2 km · Mexican national park · Wikipedia - 02Corpus Christi Cathedral, Tlalnepantla
The Corpus Christi Cathedral also called Tlalnepantla Cathedral was consecrated on August 23, 1964, in Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico. Previously, the Convent of San Francisco was founded on the site, built by the Franciscan order in 1525.
9.4 km · church in Tlalnepantla, Mexico · Wikipedia - 03Parque Tezozómoc
Parque Tezozómoc is a large park in Mexico City. It is located in the Azcapotzalco borough, in the northwestern section of Mexico City, Mexico.
9.6 km · public park in Mexico City · Wikipedia - 04Parque Naucalli
Parque Naucalli is a park just outside Mexico City in the municipality of Naucalpan de Juárez. Planning for the park began in 1975.
7.8 km · park in Mexico City, Mexico · Wikipedia - 05Arena Naucalpan
Arena Naucalpan is an indoor sports arena located in Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico located on Calle Jardín 19, Naucalpan Centro. The arena is primarily used for professional wrestling, or lucha libre, mainly shows promoted by International Wrestling Revolution Group but has also hosted a number of other promotions since its creation in 1977.
9.6 km · arena in Mexico · Wikipedia - 06Plaza Satélite
Plaza Satélite is a shopping mall in the northwest part of Greater Mexico City in Ciudad Satélite on the Anillo Periferico ring road. Opened on October 13, 1971, it was Mexico's first American-style shopping mall.
6.8 km · Shopping center located in State of Mexico, Mexico · Wikipedia - 07El Arbolillo
El Arbolillo is a Mesoamerican archaeological site located in the territory of the current municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, in the State of Mexico. It contains the remains of an ancient farming village that developed during the preclassical mesoamerican period, in the west shores of the Texcoco Lake.
9.5 km · archaeological site in Mexico · Wikipedia - 08Estadio José Ortega Martínez
The Estadio José Ortega Martínez also known as Valley Bowl Stadium, is a stadium of football with capacity for 3,700 people located in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, campus Lomas Verdes Universidad del Valle de Mexico. The stadium is the home team american football representative of the university, the Linces Lomas Verdes.
5.2 km · football stadium in Naucalpan, Mexico · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ciudad López Mateos
- Airports
- Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 26 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 35 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 38 km
- Stations
- Atizapan De Zaragoza Airport, 2.8 km
- Puebla → Ciudad López Mateos124 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · MX$140–185
- Querétaro → Ciudad López Mateos153 km · quickest by road, 3h 56m · MX$185–245
- Morelia → Ciudad López Mateos203 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · MX$250–335
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ciudad López Mateos
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ciudad López Mateos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundSome small relief is promised in late 2026 when the Mexicable cable car route 3 opens between Cuatro Caminos and the neighborhoods of Izcalli Chamapa and Lomas del Cadete.
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Next door to Ciudad López Mateos
Ciudad López Mateos is 9 km from Naucalpan de Juárez, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Naucalpanmunicipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico8.9 km
- Atizapán de Zaragoza Municipalitymunicipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico1 km
- Torres de Satélitegroup of sculptures located in the Ciudad Satélite district of Naucalpan7.5 km
- Tlatilcohuman settlement in Mexico6.6 km
- Ciudad Satéliteneighborhood in Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico, Mexico5.1 km
- Lomas Verdeshuman settlement in Mexico9.1 km