[1] Bernal is located 40 minutes by road from state capital Santiago de Querétaro and two and a half hours from Mexico City.

A total of 1014 persons are counted as Economic Active Population and there are only 630 inhabited homes in town.

[3] It is known for its enormous monolith of massive rock, the Peña de Bernal, the third highest on the planet.

[2] According to chronicler Omar Ortega Paz, its names in the Otomi language (De'hendo) and in Chichimeca (Ma'hando) have the same meaning: “In the middle of two”.

[4] In 2005, Bernal was designated a Pueblo Mágico ("Magical Town") by the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism (SECTUR).