San Pedro Atocpan, Milpa Alta

Name: San Pedro Atocpan
Address: Milpa Alta, Mexico

#2 among attractions in Milpa Alta

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San Pedro Atocpan is one of the communities that make up the borough of Milpa Alta in Mexico City. This location is known for the preparation of mole sauce, which employs over 90% of the community and provides almost all of the sauce that is eaten in Mexico City. Despite being in the Federal District and the second largest district in size, Milpa Alta is distinctly rural. Only 116,000 of Mexico City's 8 million inhabitants live in the entire borough, and as of 2005, only 8,997 lived in San Pedro Atocpan. The name "Atocpan" is from Nahuatl and means "on fertile soil" The community is located in the northwest of the borough, on the highway between Mexico City and Oaxtepec, Morelos. It has a territory of 87.65 hectares, and is about 2,500 meters above sea level. The land here is rugged as it is wedged between the Cuauhtzin Volcano and Teutli Mountain. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 19°12'4"N, 99°2'58"W

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Nearby attractions include: Museo Dolores Olmedo, San Bernardino de Siena Church, Cuahilama, Niñopa.

6.6 miNW
Museum, Art museum, Specialty museum
Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
169 min walk • The Museo Dolores Olmedo is an art museum in Xochimilco, Mexico City, based on the collection of the Mexican businesswoman Dolores Olmedo. The museum will be relocated to Chapultepec in 2024.
5.5 miNW
Church
San Bernardino de Siena Church, Mexico City
140 min walk • San Bernardino de Siena Church is the parish church of the borough of Xochimilco in Mexico City. The church and former monastery complex was built in the 16th century over a former pre Hispanic temple as part of evangelization efforts after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
3.2 miNW
Archaeological site, Climbing
Cuahilama
81 min walk • Cuahilama is a Hill and an archaeological site located south east of Santa Cruz Acalpixca, in the Cuahilama neighborhood, near the Xochimilco Archaeological Museum, in Mexico City.
5.5 miNW
Monuments and statues
Niñopa, Mexico City
140 min walk • The Niñopa or Niñopan is the most venerated image of the Child Jesus in the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco. It was created over 430 years ago in the San Bernardino monastery, as part of evangelization efforts. Since then it has been in the possession of the community.
4.1 miN
Park
Chinampa
105 min walk • Chinampa is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
6.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Chalco
161 min walk • Lake Chalco was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico, and was important for Mesoamerican cultural development in central Mexico. The lake was named after the ancient city of Chalco on its former eastern shore.
6.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Zumpango
161 min walk • Lake Zumpango was an endorheic lake formerly located in the Valley of Mexico. It was important area for Mesoamerican cultural development in central Mexico.
5.8 miE
Neighbourhood
San Andrés Mixquic, Milpa Alta
148 min walk • San Andres Míxquic is a community located in the southeast of the Distrito Federal in the borough of Tláhuac. The community was founded by the 11th century on what was a small island in Lake Chalco. “Míxquic” means “in mesquite” but the community's culture for most of its...
7.1 miNW
Neighbourhood
Tepepan, Mexico City
182 min walk • Tepepan is a town in the México City city borough of Xochimilco. In Nahuatl means " on the hill "; This name must locals built a queue at its top More adoratorio one Tonanzin UN, the mother goddess of the Aztecs.