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Ecatepec de Morelos

Ecatepec, officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the State of Mexico situated in the north of the Greater Mexico City urban area.

Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec de Morelos · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Ecatepec, officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the State of Mexico situated in the north of the Greater Mexico City urban area. The municipal seat is San Cristóbal Ecatepec.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ecatepec de Morelos

5 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
    Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

    The Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, also Ecatepec Cathedral, is the main Catholic church and seat of the Diocese of Ecatepec in Mexico. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

    1.8 km · church in Ecatepec, Mexico · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sierra de Guadalupe

    The Sierra de Guadalupe is a mountain range in Mexico. It is found between the borough of Gustavo A. Madero in northern Mexico City and the municipalities of Cuautitlán Izcalli, Tultitlán, Coacalco, Ecatepec and Tlalnepantla, in the State of Mexico.

    6.7 km · mountain range in Mexico · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    San Francisco de Asís Parish

    San Francisco de Asís Parish is a Catholic parish church in San Francisco Coacalco, in the municipality of Coacalco de Berriozábal, State of Mexico. It is dedicated to Francis of Assisi, whose feast is on 4 October.

    5.1 km · church parish in Coacalco, State of Mexico · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Multiplaza Aragón

    Multiplaza Aragón is a shopping center in Ecatepec, in Greater Mexico City, opened in 1978. As of 2018, it had the highest number of visitors of any shopping center in the metropolitan area, 2.8 million visitors per month.

    9.5 km · shopping center in Ecatepec, Mexico · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cosmopol

    Cosmopol is a shopping mall in Coacalco de Berriozábal, State of Mexico, in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, located along José López Portillo Avenue. The mall was opened in September 2015.

    7.2 km · Shopping center in the State of Mexico, Mexico · 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.

Go there

Getting to Ecatepec de Morelos

Airports
Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 16 km · Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 19 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 61 km
Stations
Ciudad Azteca, 9 km · Plaza Aragón, 9.6 km
  • Toluca → Ecatepec de Morelos
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · MX$85–110
  • Puebla → Ecatepec de Morelos
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · MX$125–170
  • Querétaro → Ecatepec de Morelos
    159 km · quickest by road, 4h · MX$185–250
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ecatepec de Morelos

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEcatepec has several cable car stations on Mexico City's Cablebus system.

From Wikivoyage: Ecatepec, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,014 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,126 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,181 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,697 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    2,636 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ecatepec de Morelos

Ecatepec de Morelos is 9 km from Ojo de Agua, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.