Where to Stay in Texcoco de Mora, Estado de México

What is Texcoco de Mora known for?

Before the Conquest this was a major Aztec centre on the lake shore, part of the triple alliance that held power in the central valley, and the water is the reason the place mattered. The lake was drained. Much of the municipality now stands on lakebed, and the Aztec finds lifted from it include the 125 tonne statue of Chalchiuhtlicue from near San Miguel Coatlinchán.

That statue sits in the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

What are the main landmarks in Texcoco de Mora?

The Immaculate Conception Cathedral is the central building. Cerrito de Los Melones rises inside the city, and the museums run wide: the Museo Nacional de Agricultura, the Museo de Biología, the Museo Regional del Pulque y el Maguey Texcoco and a geology collection named for José Guadalupe Aguilera Serrano. Tocuila holds the Paleontological Museum.

Between the cathedral, the hill and that spread of collections, the marked points sit across the whole municipality, in Tocuila and San Miguel Coatlinchán as well as in the city itself.

What is the history of Texcoco de Mora?

The lake came first. Texcoco de Mora stood on the shores of Lake Texcoco as a major Aztec city, and it belonged to the triple alliance that held power across the central valley before the Spanish arrived. The Conquest broke that.

For a while the city ranked second only to Mexico City, but its weight faded over the colonial and post-independence periods and its character turned rural. Texcoco de Mora is the seat of the Texcoco municipality, inside the Estado de México. Draining the lake changed the ground itself.

Most of Lake Texcoco was drained across those same centuries, so the city no longer stands on a shore and much of the municipality rests on lakebed. What the ground gives back is Aztec. Numerous finds have come out of the municipality, among them the 125 tonne statue of Chalchiuhtlicue discovered near San Miguel Coatlinchán, which was moved to the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Deeper time shows up at Tocuila, where the Paleontological Museum keeps what predates any of it. The Immaculate Conception Cathedral carries the colonial thread. Cerrito de Los Melones is the one named rise.

Where is Texcoco de Mora?

Water defines the ground here. Most of Lake Texcoco was drained, so Texcoco de Mora no longer sits on a shore, and much of the municipality it heads lies on the bed the lake left behind. Mexico City lies 25 km away.

The city stands in the tropical band, and the lakebed carries the outlying settlements of Tocuila and San Miguel Coatlinchán, both named in the record of finds. Cerrito de Los Melones is the one rise the record names.

What is the climate of Texcoco de Mora?

The lake used to be the moderator. Texcoco de Mora lies in the tropical band, and the draining of Lake Texcoco removed the sheet of water the city once stood beside, leaving the municipality on an exposed bed instead of a shore. Nothing finer than that is recorded.

The record for the city gives the band and the lost lake, and stops there, so anything about the run of seasons here would be guesswork rather than fact.

How do you get to Texcoco de Mora?

Mexico City is the hinge. Texcoco de Mora stands 25 km from it, inside the Estado de México, and no rail line, road number or operator is recorded for the approach in the file. The direction of travel is clear enough.

Anyone arriving works outward from the capital towards the municipal seat, with Tocuila and San Miguel Coatlinchán among the named points inside the same municipality. Spanish is the language for asking.