Metro Juanacatlán
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Juanacatlán 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... |
Metro Tacubaya
Metro Tacubaya is a station on Lines 1, 7 and 9 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Miguel Hidalgo borough of Mexico City, west of the city centre....
Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first to be built, the identifying color is pink and runs through the city from west to east....
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...
Juanacatlán is a 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....
on 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 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...
's Miguel Hidalgo
Miguel Hidalgo, D.F.
Miguel Hidalgo is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. The borough includes some of the most affluent parts of Mexico City, such as Lomas de Chapultepec and Polanco. Its population at the 2010 census was 372,889 inhabitants, and it lies at an elevation of...
borough and lies along Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first to be built, the identifying color is pink and runs through the city from west to east....
of the Metro.
Its logo depicts a butterfly, and its name comes from the Nahuatl
Nahuatl
Nahuatl is thought to mean "a good, clear sound" This language name has several spellings, among them náhuatl , Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl. In a back formation from the name of the language, the ethnic group of Nahuatl speakers are called Nahua...
word Xonacatlan, which means "place of onions" (sometimes mistakenly read as meaning "place of butterflies"). It is named for Juanacatlán in the state of Jalisco
Jalisco
Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...
. The station was opened on 11 April 1970.
The station's building also contains the offices of the Metro workers' trade union, the windows of which depict the front of a metro train. This station runs under Avenida Pedro Antonio de los Santos. It serves the San Miguel Chapultepec and Condesa districts.
