Camarones

Aquiles Serdán

Metro Aquiles Serdán

Metro Aquiles Serdán is a station along Line 7 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia La Preciosa neighborhood of the Azcapotzalco borough of northwestern Mexico City....

Line 7
Refinería
Camarones is a station

Metro station

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 along Line 7 of the Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

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. It is located in Colonia Barrio Santa Cruz Acayucan district in the Azcapotzalco

Azcapotzalco

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 borough, north of Mexico City

Mexico City

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, Mexico

Mexico

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. The station was opened with the others along the northern portion of Line 7 on 29 November 1988.

Its name and logo come from a town that once existed nearby, the town of Camarones. Camarón means shrimp, a name given because the adjoining river was home to a plentiful species of shrimp, locally known as Acociles (Cambarellus montezumae), which were part of the prehispanic, colonial and early 20th century diet of the Mexico City inhabitants.
Near Camarones metro station is the Mexico City oil refinery. It also connects with trolleybus

Trolleybus

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 line I, which runs between Metro Chapultepec

Metro Chapultepec

Chapultepec is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in the centre of Mexico City.The station logo depicts a grasshopper . The station's name comes from the Bosque de Chapultepec, a large nearby park that contains a hill with the same name. Chapultepec...

 and Metro El Rosario

Metro El Rosario

Metro El Rosario is a surface station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in Azcapotzalco borough, in the northern reaches of Mexico City. It serves as the terminal for both Lines 6 and 7.The station logo depicts a set of rosary beads....

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