Mixiuhca metro station

Metro Mixiuhca is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro serving the Colonia 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]

Mixiuhca
STC rapid transit
View of the Metro station Mixiuhca westbound platform
LocationMexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°24′31″N 99°06′46″W
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections Mixiuhca
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
Opened26 August 1987
Passengers
20186,608,798[1]
Rank101/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
Jamaica
toward Tacubaya
 Line 9 Velódromo
toward Pantitlán
Location
Mixiuhca
Location within Mexico City Central

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: Mexizalzingo, 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]

  • Stone glyph symbolizing the Metro station Mixiuhca located on the eastbound platform

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. "Mixiuhca" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  3. 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.


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