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Ixtapaluca

Ixtapaluca is a city and a municipality in the eastern part of the State of Mexico in Mexico.

Ixtapaluca
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The place

Ixtapaluca is a city and a municipality in the eastern part of the State of Mexico in Mexico. It lies between Mexico City and the western border of the state of Puebla. The name Ixtapaluca means "Where the salt gets wet".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ixtapaluca

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.

    6.5 km · 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.

    3.7 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 Ixtapaluca

Airports
Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 24 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 49 km · Hermanos Serdán (PBC), 56 km
Stations
La Paz, 9 km
  • Mexico City → Ixtapaluca
    29 km · quickest by road, 49 min · MX$27–36
  • Puebla → Ixtapaluca
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · MX$90–120
  • Toluca → Ixtapaluca
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · MX$85–110
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ixtapaluca

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 Ixtapaluca. 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

    987 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,105 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,158 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,665 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    2,605 km

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Around it

Next door to Ixtapaluca

Ixtapaluca is 9 km from Xico, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.