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Chalco

Chālco was a complex pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl or confederacy in central Mexico.

The place

Chālco was a complex pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl or confederacy in central Mexico. It was divided into the four sub-altepeme of Tlalmanalco/Tlacochcalco, Amaquemecan, Tenanco Texopalco Tepopolla and Chimalhuacan-Chalco, which were themselves further subdivided into altepetl tlayacatl, each with its own tlatoani (king). The first two of these eventually took on more importance than the other two. Its inhabitants were known as the Chālcatl (singular) or Chālcah (plural).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chalco

2 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.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Valle de Chalco

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Valle de Chalco is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla.

    600 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tlapacoya

    Tlapacoya is an important archaeological site in Mexico, located at the foot of the Tlapacoya volcano, southeast of Mexico City, on the former shore of Lake Chalco. Tlapacoya was a major site for the Tlatilco culture.

    4.1 km · Archaeological site · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Chalco

Airports
Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 26 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 54 km · Hermanos Serdán (PBC), 57 km
  • Mexico City → Chalco
    30 km · quickest by road, 53 min · MX$32–43
    GuideToday
  • Puebla → Chalco
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · MX$90–120
    GuideToday
  • Toluca → Chalco
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · MX$85–115
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chalco

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 Chalco. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    988 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,107 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,159 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,663 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    2,605 km

If you know how people move in Chalco – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Chalco

Chalco is 5 km from Xico, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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