Just like the flower that you gave me with so much love, the cempasúchil has already withered. But be careful, don’t throw it away, better take the flowers to one of the cempasúchil collection centers in CDMX. We tell you where they are.
Just as it arrived, the Day of the Dead season is leaving, and after having decorated your ofrenda, the beautiful cempasúchil flowers are losing their color.
If you still don’t know what you are going to do with them, don’t worry, you can take them to one of these places so that “the flowers of the dead give life to the soil”, because each wilted flower is an opportunity to nourish the earth.
Locations of the cempasúchil collection centers
You will find 29 collection centers that will gladly receive your cempasúchil pots, and will also be preparing to receive the Nochebuenas that will be discarded after the Christmas season.
- Bosque de San Juan de Aragón, Gustavo A. Madero
- Bosque de Tlalpan, Tlalpan
- Canal Nacional 1, Coyoacán
- Canal Nacional 2, Iztapalapa
- CCA Acuexcomatl, Xochimilco
- CCA Ecoguardas, Tlalpan
- CCA Yautlica, Iztapalapa
- Xochimilco Ecological Park, Xochimilco
- PILARES Taxqueña, Coyoacán
- PILARES Evangelina Corona, Cuauhtémoc
- Zoo of the Coyotes, Coyoacán
- PILARES Pelón Osuna, Venustiano Carranza
- PILARES 20 de noviembre, Venustiano Carranza
- PILARES Rosario Ibarra-Pensil, Miguel Hidalgo
- PILARES Amparo Ochoa, Tlalpan
- PILARES José de Molina, Coyoacán
- PILARES Topiltzin, Coyoacan
- PILLARS San Miguel Teotongo, Iztapalapa
- PILLARS Plaza de los Jóvenes, Iztapalapa
- PILLARS Enrique Dussel, Coyoacán
- PILLARS Valle Verde, Tlalpan
- PILARES Emiliano Zapata, Coyoacán
- Tlaneci School, Tlalpan
- Jacinto Canek Elementary School, Tlalpan
- Indira Gandhi Elementary School, Tlalpan
- Centro de Artes y Oficios Ajusco Medio, Tlalpan
- Center for Arts and Crafts Mesa Los Hornos, Tlalpan
- Center for Arts and Crafts Tiempo Nuevo, Tlalpan
- PILARES Parque Velódromo, Venustiano Carranza
The flowers received will be used for composting or environmental activities. So now you know: after you remove the decoration from your house or the ofrenda, don’t throw away the cempasúchil, better take it to these centers. If you want to know the exact addresses, we leave you the official map here.