Victoria de Durango
Durango is the capital and largest city of the northern Mexican state of Durango and the seat of the municipality of Durango.
Durango is the capital and largest city of the northern Mexican state of Durango and the seat of the municipality of Durango. It has a population of 616,068 as of the 2020 census with 688,697 living in the municipality. The city's official name is Victoria de Durango, renamed in honor of the first president of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria, a native of the state of Durango. The city is at an altitude of 1,890 m (6,201 ft) in the Valley of Guadiana.
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Worth seeing in and around Victoria de Durango
6 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.
- 01Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Durango
The Minor Basilica Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the metropolitan Archdiocese of the Victoria de Durango's Community, also called the Durango Cathedral, is a religious building in the Catholic Church that belongs to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Durango in Mexico. It is located in the historic center of the city of Victoria de Durango, opposite the Plaza de Armas.
300 m · church in Durango, Mexico · Wikipedia - 02Estadio Francisco Zarco
The Estadio Francisco Zarco is a multi-use stadium in the Mexican city of Durango. The stadium holds 18,000 people.
2.3 km · multi-use stadium in Durango, Mexico · Wikipedia - 03La Ferrería
La Ferrería is an archaeological site located 7 kilometers south of the city of Durango, in the Mexican state of Durango, at the “Cerro de La Ferrería”, on the side of the Tunal River. In the surrounding region mainly are Mesquite and Aloe, the fauna comprises hares, rabbits, foxes, coyotes, squirrel and lizards.
7.4 km · archaeological site in Durango, Mexico · Wikipedia - 04Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango
The Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango is a public research university in the state of Durango, Mexico. Founded in 1856 as a small state college, the university underwent a series of expansions over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, emerging as a full-scale public research institute in the 1970s with the addition of a medical school and an institute of scientific research.
2.5 km · public university in Durango, Mexico · Wikipedia - 05Ganot-Peschard Museum of Archeology
The Museo de Arqueología Ganot-Peschard is an archaeology museum located in Zona Centro, Durango, Mexico. The museum plays a major role in preserving the indigenous history of Northern Mexico.
500 m · archaeology museum in Durango, Mexico · Wikipedia - 06Autonomous University of Durango
The Universidad Autónoma de Durango is a private university with its main campus located in Durango City, Durango and with campuses in multiple Mexican states. It was founded on 11 February 1992 and is operated by the Fomento Educativo y Cultural Francisco de Ibarra, A.C. The university serves some 16,000 students on its own at high school, undergraduate and postgraduate level and offers distance learning.
4.5 km · Private university in Mexico · Wikipedia
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Getting to Victoria de Durango
- Airports
- General Rafael Buelna (MZT), 189 km · Bachigualato Federal (CUL), 296 km
- Mazatlàn → Victoria de Durango200 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · MX$230–305
- Culiacán → Victoria de Durango290 km · quickest by road, 7h 34m · MX$405–540
- Aguascalientes → Victoria de Durango340 km · quickest by road, 6h 37m · MX$355–475
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No local-transport research exists yet for Victoria de Durango
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 Victoria de Durango. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe paint designs on the bodies of public transport are sometimes very different than those of the minibuses on the same route, however the color code is respected and in general the corresponding color is mixed with white while it is add details to the shape of the stripes.
- Get aroundA color code similar to that of minibuses also applies to taxis.
From Wikivoyage: Durango (Durango), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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