Mixiuhca metro station

Mixiuhca
Mexico City Metro
STC rapid transit
General information
LocationMexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°24′31″N 99°06′46″W / 19.408478°N 99.112902°W / 19.408478; -99.112902
Line(s)Mexico City Metro Line 9 (Tacubaya - Pantitlán)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections Mixiuhca
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
Opened26 August 1987
Passengers
20237,080,229[1]Increase 3.81%
Rank55/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Jamaica
toward Tacubaya
Line 9 Velódromo
toward Pantitlán
Location
Mixiuhca is located in Mexico City
Mixiuhca
Mixiuhca
Location within Mexico City
Map
Area map

Mixiuhca is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro serving the Jardín Balbuena and Colonia Magdalena Mixiuhca districts in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City, Mexico.[2][3]

The station's icon is a silhouette of a woman holding a newborn baby.[2][3] In the Nahuatl language mixiuhca means "place of births".[2] The origin of this name comes from one of the Aztecs' migration stories. When the Aztecs first came to the Valley of Mexico, they lived for a long time in a place called Tizapan. However, they were violently expelled from there.[2] Legend states that they ran out to the surrounding swamps using their shields and spears as rafts for the women and children.[2] They ran across three places: Mexicaltzingo, Iztacalco and Temazcaltitlán, and precisely there, in that last place, one of the women gave birth to a child.[2] From then on, the name of that place became Mixiuhca.[2]

The station was opened on 26 August 1987.[4] From 23 April to 21 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference passnrank22-23 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Mixiuhca" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  3. ^ a b Archambault, Richard. "Mixiuhca » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  4. ^ Monroy, Marco. Schwandl, Robert (ed.). "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Cierre temporal de estaciones" (PDF) (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  6. ^ Hernández, Eduardo (13 June 2020). "Coronavirus. Este es el plan para reabrir estaciones del Metro, Metrobús y Tren ligero". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2020.