Veteran Cemeteries

Overseas American military cemetery

Mexico City National Cemetery

Mexico

Maintained outside the United States by the American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. federal agency.

Location

Juan Ruíz de Alarcón. Park, 06470, Virginia Fábregas 258, San Rafael, Cuauhtémoc, 06470 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

The map point uses the coordinates the American Battle Monuments Commission publishes for this cemetery. Get directions · View on OpenStreetMap

Visiting

Address
Juan Ruíz de Alarcón. Park, 06470, Virginia Fábregas 258, San Rafael, Cuauhtémoc, 06470 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Phone
Not yet verified
Visiting hours
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
Accessibility
Not yet verified — call the cemetery to ask about parking and paths.
Official page
abmc.gov

Details are as published by the American Battle Monuments Commission, checked November 11, 2026. Hours change for holidays, weather and ceremonies.

Admission and hours, from the American Battle Monuments Commission

Business Hours

  • 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.

  • Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.

    When open, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.

  • Admission is FREE and does not require booking in advance.

Planning a visit to a veterans cemetery

Pay your respects

Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.

About this cemetery

Reproduced from the American Battle Monuments Commission’s own description of this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the agency’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.

The Mexico City National Cemetery was established in 1851 by Congress to gather the American dead of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) that lay in the nearby fields and to provide burial space for Americans that died in the vicinity.

The remains were gathered in 1851 and buried in a common grave at this cemetery. They were not identified so they are classified as unknown soldiers. A small monument marks the common grave of 750 unidentified American dead of the War of 1847. Inscribed on the monument are the words:

To the honored memory of 750 Americans known but to God whose bones collected by their country’s order are here buried.

In this one-acre area are also placed the remains of 813 Americans and others in wall crypts on either side of the cemetery. The cemetery was closed to further burials in 1923.

Buried at the Mexico City National Cemetery are American servicemen who served during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Civil War and Spanish American War. Learn more about those Americans buried and memorialized who served during these conflicts.

Read the Commission’s full history of this cemetery

Sources

  1. American Battle Monuments Commission. Cemeteries and memorials. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, location and contact details, and the hours and description where shown.
  2. American Battle Monuments Commission. Mexico City National Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.

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