Calimaya is a town and
municipality located just south of
Toluca, the capital of the
State of Mexico in central
Mexico. The settlement was probably established around 800 BCE, when the city of
Teotenango was in existence. It remained an important town through the colonial period, part of the vast lands held by a family which came to be known as the Counts of Calimaya. The town is home to one of the oldest examples of an
open chapel in the State of Mexico. Today, the municipality is still mostly agricultural but there has been rapid construction of housing divisions, changing parts of it from rural to suburban.