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Chilpancingo Station sign at Chilpancingo, July 2008 Mexico City Metro Mexico City Metro The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

Patriotismo

Metro Patriotismo

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Line 9
Centro Médico

Metro Centro Médico

Metro Centro Médico is an underground metro station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. It is a transfer station for both Lines 3 and 9....

Metro Chilpancingo is an underground metro station

Metro station

A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc, D.F.

Cuauhtémoc, named after the former Aztec leader, is one of the 16 boroughs of the Federal district of Mexico City. It consists of the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire city in the 1920s. This area is the historic and culture center of the city, although it is not the...

 borough of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. It is very close to Metrobús

Mexico City Metrobús

Metrobús is a bus rapid transit system in Mexico City, Mexico. It comprises 3 lines that traverse the city and connect with other forms of transit. It was officially opened to the public with service along Line 1 on 19 June 2005...

 station of the same name.

The station is named after the nearby Avenida Chilpancingo, which in turn is named after the city of Chilpancingo de los Bravo

Chilpancingo

Chilpancingo de los Bravo is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Guerrero, Mexico. It is located at . In the 2005 census the population of the city was 166,796. Its surrounding municipality, of which it is municipal seat, had a population of 214,219 persons...

, the capital of the state of Guerrero

Guerrero

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. The station logo is the silhouette of a wasp since Chilpancingo means the place of the wasp

Wasp

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s in Nahuatl

Nahuatl

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The station serves the Colonia Roma

Colonia Roma

Colonia Roma is a colonia or neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City just west of the city’s historic center. The area was a very shallow part of Lake Texcoco, dotted with tiny islands and one small island village of Aztacalco during the pre-Hispanic period...

 Sur and Colonia Condesa neighbourhoods in the Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc, D.F.

Cuauhtémoc, named after the former Aztec leader, is one of the 16 boroughs of the Federal district of Mexico City. It consists of the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire city in the 1920s. This area is the historic and culture center of the city, although it is not the...

 borough. It is located at the intersection of Avenida de los Insurgentes

Avenida de los Insurgentes

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 and Avenida Baja California. It was opened on 29 August 1988.

In July 2007 a man in his 70s died of a heart attack within the station.

See also

• UAM Cuajimalpa - the Avenida Baja California branch is near this station
• Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food
  Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food
  The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food is Mexico's agriculture ministry.-External links:*...
  
   - a satellite office is located a few blocks southwest of the station
• World Trade Center Mexico City - located several blocks southwest of the station