Chapultepec metro station
Chapultepec is a station on the Mexico City Metro.[1][2] It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in the centre of Mexico City.[1]
General information
The station logo depicts a grasshopper (chapulín).[1][2] The station's name comes from the Bosque de Chapultepec, a large nearby park that contains a hill with the same name.[1] Chapultepec means "grasshopper hill" in Nahuatl.[1] The station was opened on 5 September 1969 with service eastward to Sevilla, when Chapultepec served as the western terminus of Line 1.[3] Westward service from Chapultepec to Juanacatlán started 11 April 1970.[3]
Chapultepec lies along Line 1 only.[1][2] Despite no longer being a terminal and not being a transfer station for other metro lines, the station does play an important role as a bus transfer station, connecting with a vast array of microbuses that service the north of Mexico City and areas in the adjacent State of México, such as Ciudad Satélite, Valle Dorado, Arboledas and Cuautitlán Izcalli.
The station is also served by two trolleybus lines of STE: One is route S, which runs east from Chapultepec to Metro Velódromo along the arterial thoroughfares known as Eje 2 Sur and Eje 2A Sur and is one of two high-frequency trolleybus lines that STE calls "Zero-Emissions Corridors".[4] The other is route I, which connects Chapultepec with Metro El Rosario, to the north.
Chapultepec has an information desk; the station forecourt also contains a collection of retail stores, including a clothes boutique, a drugstore and a record store.
The station serves the following neighborhoods: San Miguel Chapultepec, Colonia Juárez, Colonia Condesa and Colonia Roma Norte.
Nearby
- Headquarters of the Secretariat of Health
- Headquarters of the Mexican Social Security Institute
- Torre Mayor, 225 metres tall skyscraper.
- Bosque de Chapultepec, the closest points of interest to the station are:
- Museo de Arte Moderno, museum of modern art.
- Chapultepec Castle
- Heroic Cadets Memorial, monument dedicated to the memory of the Niños Héroes.
- Chapultepec Zoo
- Estela de Luz, monument that commemorates the bicentenary of Mexico's independence.
Exits
- East: Tampico street and Avenida Chapultepec, Colonia Roma Norte
- Northeast: Circuito Interior José Vasconcelos, Colonia Juárez
- West: Circuito Interior, San Miguel Chapultepec
- Northwest: Circuito Interior, Colonia Juárez
- North: Circuito Interior and Bosque de Chapultepec
- South: Circuito Interior José Vasconcelos, Colonia Condesa
Gallery
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Entry sign to the station -
Station platforms
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Chapultepec" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c Archambault, Richard. "Chapultepec » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- ^ a b Monroy, Marco. Schwandl, Robert (ed.). "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Retrieved 14 August 2011.
- ^ Trolleybus Magazine No. 296 (March–April 2011), p. 42. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.
External links
Media related to Chapultepec (station) at Wikimedia Commons
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