Malinalco

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 water from center 4.6 km2.9 mi
• Nearest mountain from center 4.5 km2.8 mi