Metro Eduardo Molina
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Metro Consulado
Metro Consulado is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located between Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza boroughs, in the north of Mexico City. The station logo depicts the transverse section of a water duct, and refers to a river encased in a duct that runs under nearby Avenida Río...
Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5 is one of the 11 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.It has as its color the color yellow and runs from the north to the east...
Aragón
Metro Aragón
Metro Aragón is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the northeast quarter of Mexico City, in the Colonia Casas Alemán and Colonia Simón Bolívar districts of the Venustiano Carranza borough. It lies along Line 5...
Metro Eduardo Molina is a 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....
on Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5 is one of the 11 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.It has as its color the color yellow and runs from the north to the east...
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 a surface station that lies within the median of Avenida Río Consulado. It serves the Colonia Malinche and Colonia 20 de Noviembre neighborhoods 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...
. The station was opened on 19 December 1981.
Its logo represents a part of the masterpiece El Agua, Origen de la Vida (The water, origin of life) by Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
. It represents two hands taking water. The station is named in honor of Eduardo Molina, an important engineer, who solved the problem of water scarcity in the 1960's in Mexico.