1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Santiago de Querétaro—1,594,212, America/Mexico_City, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of the State of Querétaro, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Santiago de Querétaro is GeoNames ID 3991164. Its recorded administrative path is Queretaro → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Santiago de Querétaro occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Santiago de Querétaro ranks 287 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 6; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 39. Its 1,594,212 population value is 1.97 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 1.95 times the 816,326 regional median. Santiago de Querétaro falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Santiago de Querétaro's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Santiago de Querétaro's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Morelia at 129.017 km with 743,275 recorded people; León de Los Aldama at 147.02 km with 1,579,803 recorded people; Cuautitlán Izcalli at 161.241 km with 555,163 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 32.224 km. Compared with Morelia, Santiago de Querétaro's recorded population is 2.14 times as large. Against Santiago de Querétaro, Morelia follows Morelia → Michoacan → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Santiago de Querétaro's. Against Santiago de Querétaro, León de Los Aldama follows Leon → Guanajuato → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Santiago de Querétaro's. Against Santiago de Querétaro, Cuautitlán Izcalli follows Cuautitlan Izcalli → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Santiago de Querétaro's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 817 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Santiago de Querétaro's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3991164, the coordinate pair 20.5881 / 100.3881, country rank 6 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3995402 at 129.017 km bind Santiago de Querétaro to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Santiago de Querétaro's reference point is 20.5881° north and 100.3881° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Santiago de Querétaro's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Santiago de Querétaro's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Santiago de Querétaro's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Santiago de Querétaro, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Santiago de Querétaro's closest other entries in this atlas are Morelia (129.017 km), León de Los Aldama (147.02 km), Cuautitlán Izcalli (161.241 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.