Barranca del Muerto metro station

Barranca del Muerto is the southern terminus of Line 7 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Álvaro Obregón municipality. In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 45,703 passengers per day, making it the busiest station in Line 7.[1]

Barranca del Muerto
STC rapid transit
Station platforms
Location	Avenida Revolución Los Alpes, Álvaro Obregón Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°21′38″N 99°11′25″W
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	19 December 1985
Passengers
2019	16,681,529[1]  3.7%
Rank	19/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station Mixcoac toward El Rosario Line 7 Terminus
Route map El Rosario workshops El Rosario Aquiles Serdán Camarones Refinería Tacuba San Joaquín Polanco Auditorio Constituyentes Tacubaya San Pedro de los Pinos San Antonio Mixcoac Barranca del Muerto
Location
Barranca del Muerto Location within Mexico City

Name and pictogram

The metro station is named after Avenida Barranca del Muerto, that was once a big depression, the same length of the actual avenue (barranca means gully or ravine). During the Mexican Revolution (1910–1921) this was a place where revolutionary soldiers dropped many corpses. Eagles and buzzards flew nearby, smelling rotten flesh. Popular imagination refers to the dead people's souls and ghosts restlessly promenading near that big hole. Thus, Barranca del Muerto means "Canyon of the Dead".[2]

The station's pictogram depicts two eagles, some say buzzards.[2]

History

Metro Barranca del Muerto was opened on 19 December 1985 together with the whole 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long extension stretch of Line 7 from Tacubaya.[3]

This station was supposed to be a provisional terminal. According to original plans, Line 7 would be extended south and reach as far as San Jerónimo. Nevertheless, such plans never materialized and Barranca del Muerto has been Line 7 southern terminus since.[4]

Recently, in 2017, mayors from the Álvaro Obregón and Magdalena Contreras municipalities, have asked Mexico City's government to pick up the project again and continue with the southern expansion of the line to San Jerónimo, that would benefit around 500,000 inhabitants of both municipalities.[5]

General information

Metro Barranca del Muerto is located at the intersection of Avenida Revolución and Avenida Barranca del Muerto, on the border of the Álvaro Obregón and Benito Juárez municipalities.[2]

The station has two separated platforms, one used for arriving trains and another one for departing trains. The exit is at the middle of the platforms. There are two exits, located at the intersection of Avenida Revolución (which leads further to San Ángel), Macedonio Alcala, and Calle Alfonso Caso.

South of Barranca del Muerto, there is a Saturday market at the famous San Jacinto square (Bazar de los sábados de San Jacinto) where artists sell paintings, plants and other handcrafts.[6][7]

Metro Barranca del Muerto, as many stations in the Metro network, has a cyber center, where users can access internet through a computer; the service is free. The station also has a cultural display and the sculptural mural Visión del Mictlán by Luis Y. Aragón, which is located right outside the east access to the station.[2]

The station serves the Guadalupe Inn and Los Alpes neighborhoods.

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% Change	Ref.
2019	16,681,529	45,703	19/195	+3.70%	[1]
2018	16,085,373	44,070	19/195	–	[8]

Exits

• West: Av. Revolución and Condor, Col. Los Alpes
• East: Av. Revolución and Gustavo Campa, Col. Guadalupe Inn

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Ticket windows/Fare control
B2	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Northbound	→ toward El Rosario (Mixcoac) →
	Southbound	← termination track
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Gallery

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  Entrance to the station
• 
  Platforms

References

1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
2. "Barranca del Muerto" (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
3. Schwandl, Robert. "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Urbanrail. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
4. "El plan maestro del Metro que nunca se llevó a cabo". mxcity.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 March 2020.
5. Suárez, Gerardo (1 March 2017). "Mercado pide ampliar L7 del Metro hasta San Jerónimo". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 March 2020.
6. "Bazar del Sábado - Ciudad de México". Retrieved 1 August 2011.
7. "San Ángel Saturday Bazaar and Art Fair Centro de San Ángel". Retrieved 1 August 2011.
8. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.