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Ciudad Satélite, Naucalpan de Juárez — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ciudad Satélite, or simply Satélite, is a middle-class planned area of Naucalpan within Greater Mexico City.
About Ciudad Satélite
Where to stay in Ciudad Satélite
Not every neighbourhood fits every trip — here's what each one is good for.
Satélite is a base for Greater Mexico City, not for its historic core. Rooms here sit among the residential blocks of Naucalpan, roughly 14 km out from the Historic Mexico City Center, which suits drivers and business visitors better than sightseers who want the old centre at walking distance. Traffic decides everything.
If you are calling on Atizapán de Zaragoza or Tlalnepantla de Baz, a bed in Satélite puts all three within one loop rather than one long crossing of Mexico City.
About Ciudad Satélite
What are the main landmarks in Ciudad Satélite?
Satélite offers no catalogued monument in the record. The area's interest lies in its planning: it was modelled on urban areas in the United States and England, and the result reads as a suburban experiment rather than a set of sights. Museums sit elsewhere.
Anyone here for landmarks will make the run to the Historic Mexico City Center, while Naucalpan, Tlalnepantla, and Atizapán supply the everyday business that keeps Satélite in use.
What is the history of Ciudad Satélite?
Dates differ. The gazetteer record carries 1948, while accounts of the neighbourhood proper place its founding at about 1957, when the name belonged to a single planned neighbourhood in Naucalpan. Officially the name still covers only that first neighbourhood.
In practice the label spread outward, gathering nearby colonias and the adjoining municipalities of Atizapán de Zaragoza and Tlalnepantla de Baz, and crossing the city limits into the State of Mexico.
Where is Ciudad Satélite?
Ciudad Satélite lies in Naucalpan, some 14 km from the Historic Mexico City Center, with Tlalnepantla de Baz and Atizapán de Zaragoza adjoining it.
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Updated September 2026