Culhuacán metro station
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| Coordinates | 19°20′13″N 99°06′32″W / 19.337001°N 99.108990°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Accessible | yes[1] | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 October 2012 | ||||||||||
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| 2018 | 5,277,511[2] | ||||||||||
| Rank | 124/195[2] | ||||||||||
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Metro Culhuacán is a station on Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro.[3] The station is located between Atlalilco and San Andrés Tomatlán. It was opened on 30 October 2012 as a part of the first stretch of Line 12 between Mixcoac and Tláhuac.[3]
The station is located south of the city center, at the intersection between Avenida Tlahuac and Calzada Taxqueña. It is above the ground.
The station is named after the pueblo of Culhuacán, which was an important prehispanic city and is now a designated "Barrio Mágico" within the borough of Iztapalapa. The station's icon depicts the Aztec glyph for Culhuacán.[4]
References
- ^ "12 datos de la 'La línea dorada' del Metro inaugurada este martes" (in Spanish). Aristegui Noticias. 30 October 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ a b Schwandl, Robert. "UrbanRail.Net > Central America > Mexico > Ciudad de Mexico Metro". Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ "Culhuacán". Sistema de Transporte Colectivo de la Ciudad de México. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
External links
Media related to Culhuacán (station) at Wikimedia Commons
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