Chapingo is a small town located on the outskirts of the city of Texcoco, State of Mexico in central Mexico.
It is located at 19°29′N 98°53′W, about 25 km east-northeast of Mexico City International Airport.
Chapingo is most notable as the location of Chapingo Autonomous University. The UACh, as it is known, is the country's most prestigious center for agricultural studies. It was founded as the National School of Agriculture in Mexico City in 1854 and has been located on its current Chapingo campus since 1923.
It is very close, about 3 km from both the Colegio de Posgraduados postgraduate study centre and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
Chapingo combines with these other leading centers to form an unofficial "national consortium for agricultural development".
In the surrounding area is located also a new urban development now close to the municipal seat, Texcoco, cradle of the prehispanic Acolhuan culture, whose greatest figure was King Nezahualcoyotl.
This urban settlement comprises Chapingo, Huexotla, Unidad ISSSTE as well as Salitreria and Texcoco.