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Milpa Alta

Milpa Alta is a borough in Mexico City.

Milpa Alta
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The place

Milpa Alta is a borough in Mexico City. It lies in the southeast corner of the nation's capital, bordering the State of Mexico and Morelos. It is the least populated, second largest and most rural of all the boroughs. It is also one of the most traditional areas of the city, with over 700 religious and secular festivals during the year and an economy based on agriculture and food processing, especially the production of nopal cactus, barbacoa and mole sauce.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Milpa Alta

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
    Lake Chalco

    Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico, and was important for Mesoamerican cultural development in central Mexico. The lake was named after the ancient city of Chalco on its former eastern shore.

    9.3 km · lake in Mexico · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cuahilama

    Cuahilama is a hill and an archaeological site located southeast of Santa Cruz Acalpixca, in the Cuahilama neighborhood, near the Xochimilco Archaeological Museum, in Mexico City. It was a ceremonial center.

    7.4 km · archaeological site in Mexico City, Mexico · Wikipedia

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Getting to Milpa Alta

Airports
Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX), 28 km · Adolfo López Mateos (TLC), 59 km · Felipe Ángeles (NLU), 61 km
  • Mexico City → Milpa Alta
    28 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · MX$31–42
    GuideToday
  • Toluca → Milpa Alta
    67 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · MX$75–100
    GuideToday
  • Puebla → Milpa Alta
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · MX$105–140
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Milpa Alta

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 Milpa Alta. 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

    998 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,120 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,171 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,671 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    2,613 km

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Around it

Next door to Milpa Alta

Milpa Alta is 11 km from Tláhuac, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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