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Malinalco

Malinalco · Mexico
Malinalco, Mexico
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Top 1% in country
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How to get there 18.9485, -99.4962

Malinalco holds one of Mexico's most striking Aztec monuments: the Cuauhcalli, or House of Eagles, a sanctuary for the Eagle and Jaguar warrior elite carved directly into the rock face of the Cerro de los Idolos in the 1470s. The town is also a designated Pueblo Mágico in the State of Mexico, long associated with shamanism and sorcery through the legend of the goddess Malinalxochitl. Nearby Chalma draws religious pilgrims to a shrine housing a Black Christ figure, the second-most visited in Mexico after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

  • Population8,045
  • Nearest water4.6 km
  • Nearest mountain4.5 km
  • UNESCO within 50 km3
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