Chabacano metro station

Metro Chabacano is a station on Lines 2, 8 and 9 of the Mexico City Metro system.[2][3][4][5][6] It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, south of the city centre, on Calzada de Tlalpan.[2]

Chabacano
STC rapid transit
Line 8 platform at Metro Chabacano
Location	Cuauhtémoc Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19.408438°N 99.135754°W
Platforms	1 island platform 2 side platforms; 1 island platform 2 side platform
Tracks	6
Construction
Structure type	Surface Underground Underground
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1 August 1970 20 July 1994 26 August 1987
Passengers
2018	10,831,155[1] 1,571,045[1] 4,014,545[1]
Rank	45/195[1] 191/195[1] 146/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station San Antonio Abad toward Cuatro Caminos Line 2 Viaducto toward Tasqueña Obrera toward Garibaldi / Lagunilla Line 8 La Viga toward Constitución de 1917 Lázaro Cárdenas toward Tacubaya Line 9 Jamaica toward Pantitlán
Route map Cuatro Caminos State of Mexico Mexico City Panteones Tacuba Cuitláhuac Popotla Colegio Militar Normal San Cosme Revolución Hidalgo Bellas Artes Allende Zócalo Pino Suárez San Antonio Abad Chabacano Viaducto Xola Villa de Cortés Nativitas Portales Ermita General Anaya Tasqueña Tasqueña yard Garibaldi / Lagunilla Bellas Artes San Juan de Letrán Salto del Agua Doctores Obrera Chabacano La Viga Santa Anita Coyuya Iztacalco Apatlaco Aculco Escuadrón 201 Atlalilco Iztapalapa Cerro de la Estrella UAM-I Constitución de 1917 proposed extension Observatorio proposed extension Tacubaya Patriotismo Chilpancingo Centro Médico Lázaro Cárdenas Chabacano Jamaica Mixiuhca Velódromo Ciudad Deportiva Puebla Pantitlán
Location
Chabacano Location within Mexico City Central

History

Chabacano means apricot in Mexican Spanish.[7][8] When Mexico City was expanding south towards Río de la Piedad (now tubed under the Viaducto Miguel Alemán)[9] city planners decided to name an avenue after the fruit that grew prodigiously next to the shore of the river. The same name was later on applied to the metro station that was built under the bridge made by Chabacano Avenue when it crosses above the Calzada de Tlalpan.[8]

Metro Chabacano was the first station on the Mexico City Metro to make use of a third, central platform for descending while the other two on the sides are used for ascending. This system was first used in the Barcelona Metro and is sometimes called the Spanish solution.

The station has several cultural displays and a small public library. There is a couple of mosaic murals on the side of the station belonging to Line 9.[2]

Scenes for the 1990 motion picture Total Recall were filmed in the corridors of Metro Chabacano; a fake blood spot still remains in a roof.[10]

On 28 December 2010 the station was the scene of a deadly accident when an elderly passenger tried to help two others who had dropped items onto the tracks fell onto the tracks himself and was killed by an approaching train on line 2.[11][12]

Exits

Line 2

• East: Avenida San Antonio Abad between Juan A. Mateos street and Calzada Chabacano, Colonia Vista Alegre
• West: Avenida San Antonio Abad between Manuel Caballero street and Antonio Solís street, Colonia Obrera

Line 8

• North: Juan A. Mateos street and Vicente Beristain street, Colonia Vista Alegre
• Southeast: Juan A. Mateos street and Vicente Beristain street, Colonia Vista Alegre
• Southwest: Juan A. Mateos street and Vicente Beristain street, Colonia Vista Alegre

Line 9

• Northeast: Calzada Chabacano and José Antonio Torres street, Colonia Vista Alegre
• Southeast: Calzada Chabacano and José Antonio Torres street, Colonia Vista Alegre
• Northwest: Calzada Chabacano and Francisco Ayala street, Colonia Ampliación Asturias
• Southwest: Calzada Chabacano and Francisco Ayala street, Colonia Ampliación Asturias

Gallery

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  Train arriving to Metro Chabacano
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  Art exhibition space at Metro Chabacano
• 
  Outside view of Metro station Chabacano, Line 2 section above ground on Calzada de Tlalpan

See also

• List of Mexico City metro stations

References

1. "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.
2. "Chabacano" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
3. Archambault, Richard. "Chabacano » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 29 July 2011.
4. "Red de metro de México D.F." (in Spanish). Metros del Mundo. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
5. "SECTURDF - ESTACIÓN CHABACANO". Retrieved 29 July 2011.
6. "Estación Chabacano del Metro en la Ciudad de Mexico". Retrieved 29 July 2011.
7. The Wiktionary definition of Chabacano
8. Sandoval, Cecilia (1 May 2008). "Myco – Estación Chabacano" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
9. Legorreta, Jorge (16 October 2002). "Viaducto y Periférico, creaciones urbanísticas de Carlos Contreras". La Jornada. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
10. "Film locations for Total Recall". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
11. "Reanudan servicio en Metro Chabacano". El Universal (in Spanish). 28 December 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
12. "HABRÍAN SIDO 2 LOS ARROLLADOS POR EL METRO EN ESTACIÓN CHABACANO" (in Spanish). 28 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 June 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.

External links

• Media related to Chabacano (station) at Wikimedia Commons