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Naucalpan de Juárez
Municipality in State of Mexico, Mexico

Naucalpan de Juárez

Naucalpan, officially Naucalpan de Juárez, is one of 125 Municipalities of Mexico State, and is located just northwest of Mexico City.

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The municipal seat is the city of Naucalpan de Juárez, which extends into the neighboring municipality of Huixquilucan.

Get in

Getting to Naucalpan de Juárez

The easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to Naucalpan is to use the Mexico City Metro subway system. Take Line 2 (blue) to Cuatro Caminos. This station is a large transportation hub, called Centro de Transferencia Modal (CETRAM). Several bus and BRT lines start and end at this station, which has routes covering most of Naucalpan and adjacent parts of Mexico City's northwest suburbs.

See

Worth seeing

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    Torres de Satelite

    Avila Camacho (in an island in the middle of the busy Periferico (the major highway circling Mexico City)).

  2. 02
    Parque Quetzalcóatl

    Villa Los Naranjos 53297, Paseos del Bosque.

  3. 03
    Plaza Revolucion

    16 de Septiembre Manzana 005, Naucalpan Centro.

  4. 04
    El Conde Archaeological Zone

    Ancient ruins from the Preclassic period.

  5. 05
    Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios

    Catholic shrine in the Los Remedios National Park.

Do

Things to do

Los Remedios is an urban park that is part of the Mexico national parks system. It protects the forests and historical sites around Cerro Moctezuma, a 2,300-meter-high mountain. It is a popular park for jogging, working out, horseback riding and dog walking. It covers about 900 hectares, mostly wooded with wide, marked trails, but is severely threatened by illegal squatters and deforestation.

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    Los Remedios National Park
Eat

Where to eat

There are a lot of restaurants in this area, but most are unremarkable corporate-style concept restaurants with unexceptional cooking for a mass market clientele with fat wallets. There are casual eateries in all the myriad shopping centers and a lot of large restaurants that cluster along the Periferico (Blvd. Avila Camacho).

  1. 01
    La Casa de los Olivos

    Casual restaurant serving traditional and regional Mexican dishes like milanesa or chile en nogada.

  2. 02
    Porfirio's

    Manuel Avila Camacho 5, Toreo Parque Central,.

  3. 03
    La Vaka

    Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho Norte Conjunto, San Miguel,.

How locals move

Getting around Naucalpan de Juárez the local way

  • Get aroundSome small relief is promised in late 2026 when the Mexicable cable car route 3 opens between Cuatro Caminos and the neighborhoods of Izcalli Chamapa and Lomas del Cadete.

From Wikivoyage: Naucalpan, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Syced (CC0), Wikimedia Commons.