Where to Stay in Ecatepec de Morelos, Estado de México

What is Ecatepec de Morelos known for?

Ecatepec de Morelos is the most populous city in the State of Mexico, administered from the town of San Cristóbal Ecatepec. Two museums and a planetarium stand out. The Planetario El Gran Ehécatl shares the municipality with the Museo Jurasica and the site museum inside the Parque Ecológico Ehécatl, while the Casa de Morelos anchors what Ecatepec keeps of its own past.

What are the main landmarks in Ecatepec de Morelos?

Ecatepec's list runs to six sites. The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Christopher Church are the churches, the Casa de Morelos is the historic house, and the Museo Jurasica, the Planetario El Gran Ehécatl and the site museum in the Parque Ecológico Ehécatl carry everything else. The planetarium is the odd one.

Planetario El Gran Ehécatl, Los Hijos del Dios del Viento is the full name it carries, and a planetarium is not what most municipalities on the northern rim of Greater Mexico City can show.

What is the history of Ecatepec de Morelos?

Ecatepec takes its name from the Nahuatl Ehecatépētl, 'on the hill of the wind god', a name found in at least four codices, the Codex Mendoza among them. After the fall of Tenochtitlan, Dominican friars built a church on the ruins of pre-Hispanic buildings and renamed the settlement San Cristóbal Ecatepec. The church of San Cristóbal and its convent date from 1562.

José María Morelos y Pavón was imprisoned and shot here at the end of 1815. Ecatepec de Morelos carries his name. The present cathedral opened in 1999.

Where is Ecatepec de Morelos?

Ecatepec sits on the northern rim. The municipality occupies the north of the Greater Mexico City urban area inside the State of Mexico, which places it against the capital's built ground on one side and the wider state on the other. Green ground survives in one place.

The Parque Ecológico Ehécatl is the open space the record names, and its site museum shows that the ground under it was in use long before the urban area reached this far north.

What is the climate of Ecatepec de Morelos?

Tropical latitudes cover this municipality. Ecatepec de Morelos falls in that band north of the Equator, which keeps the swing between the warm and cool halves of the year narrow enough that no season closes anything down. Evenings favour the planetarium.

A show at the Planetario El Gran Ehécatl works whatever the sky is doing, and the same cannot be said of a walk through the Parque Ecológico Ehécatl in the middle of a warm afternoon.

How do you get to Ecatepec de Morelos?

Everything comes from the south. The Mexibús, an interurban bus line, runs from the Ciudad Azteca metro station through Ecatepec de Morelos, so arrival means working outward from the capital rather than approaching an independent town from open country. San Cristóbal Ecatepec is the destination within it.

The municipal seat is where Saint Christopher Church and the Casa de Morelos stand, while the Parque Ecológico Ehécatl, the Planetario El Gran Ehécatl and the Museo Jurasica each need their own leg once the municipality has been reached.