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Zapopan

Zapopan
Zapopan · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zapopan

10 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
    University of Guadalajara

    University in Mexico

    5.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Estadio Akron

    Football (soccer) stadium in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, home venue for CD Guadalajara

    9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hospicio Cabañas

    World Heritage Site in Mexico

    7.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Jalisco Stadium

    Football (soccer) stadium located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    6.4 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Estadio Tres de Marzo

    Football stadium

    4.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Guadalajara Cathedral

    Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    6.5 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan

    Church building in Zapopan, Mexico de 45 metros de altura

    500 m · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hotel Riu Plaza Guadalajara

    Skyscraper hotel in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    6.2 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara

    University

    4.3 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Minerva

    Statue in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    5.2 km · 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 Zapopan

Airports
Guadalajara (GDL), 23 km · Aguascalientes (AGU), 155 km · Puerto Vallarta (PVR), 194 km
Stations
Zapopan Airport, 7.6 km · Ávila Camacho, 4.2 km · Mexicaltzingo, 6.9 km · Juárez railway station, 6.2 km · Plaza Universidad, 6.5 km
  • Aguascalientes → Zapopan
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · MX$205–270
  • Puerto Vallarta → Zapopan
    192 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · MX$275–370
  • Silao → Zapopan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Zapopan

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundMetropolitan Area Mass Transit System (Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Zona Metropolitana) is the local transit authority.
  • Get aroundTour operators use luxury buses (such as Turquesa, Tour and Cardenal).

From Wikivoyage: Guadalajara, 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

    1,482 km
  2. 02
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,586 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,646 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    2,154 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    3,099 km

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

Around it

Next door to Zapopan

Zapopan is 6 km from Guadalajara, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.