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Getting to La Candelaria

Airports
Carlos Rovirosa Pérez (VSA), 143 km
  • Villahermosa → La Candelaria
    145 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · MX$285–380
  • Huatulco → La Candelaria
    418 km · quickest by road, 9h 3m · MX$510–680
  • Oaxaca → La Candelaria
    86 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · MX$140–190
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

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No local-transport research exists yet for La Candelaria

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMost tour agencies in town also operate shuttle services to the airport for about M$200, generally one or two a day, and will pick you up at your place of stay.
  • Get inThe bus and colectivo companies have their own stands and stations clustered around Av Insurgente and Carretera de las Americas (Hwy 190) in Barrio San Diego (SE part of town).
  • Get inThere are many other public transportation modes from Tuxtla to San Cristóbal: taxi, colectivo, and collective suburbans.
  • Get inLocal travel agents in Antigua Guatemala and San Cristobal de las Casas sell tickets for direct colectivos between Antigua, Panajachel and San Cristobal las Casas.
  • Get aroundThe main form of public transportation for locals come in the form of a van or minibus.

From Wikivoyage: San Cristóbal de las Casas, 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

    282 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    488 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    490 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    945 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,875 km

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