Coyoacán
Coyoacán is a borough in Mexico City.
Coyoacán is a borough in Mexico City. The former village became the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl Coyōhuahcān, composed of coyōhuah and -cān ('place'), and therefore means 'place of those who own coyotes', which the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco dominated by the Tepanec people. Against Aztec domination, these people allied with the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523.
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Getting to Coyoacán
- Airports
- Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 14 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 42 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 46 km
- Mexico City → Coyoacán10 km · quickest by road, 25 min · MX$11–14
- Toluca → Coyoacán52 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · MX$60–75
- Puebla → Coyoacán106 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · MX$120–165
- 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 Coyoacán
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 Coyoacán. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAs your cable car floats above the neighborhoods below, you can admire the various rooftop murals that local artists have created for the benefit of Cablebus riders.
From Wikivoyage: Mexico City/Iztapalapa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Coyoacán
Coyoacán is 3 km from Benito Juárez, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.