Metro Potrero
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Potrero 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 Deportivo 18 de Marzo
Metro Deportivo 18 de Marzo is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in Mexico City's Gustavo A. Madero borough.The name of the station refers to the adjacent Deportivo 18 de Marzo sports complex, and its logo represents a player of a pre-Columbian ball game.This station was previously...
Line 3
Mexico City Metro Line 3
Mexico City Metro Line 3 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.Line 3 is the longest line, its color is olive green and it runs from north to south of the city covering almost all of it....
La Raza
Metro La Raza
Metro La Raza is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is a combinedsubway and surface station, located in the Colonia Vallejo and Colonia Héroes de Nacozari neighbourhoods of the Gustavo A...
Metro Potrero 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 the Gustavo A. Madero
Gustavo A. Madero
Gustavo Adolfo Madero also known to many as "Ojo Pardo" , born in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, Mexico, was a participant in the Mexican Revolution against Porfirio Díaz along with other members of his wealthy family....
borough, in the northern part 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...
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The station logo depicts a colt behind a fence. The Spanish word potrero
Potrero
-See also:*Potrero Hill, San Francisco, a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA*Potrero Chico, a rock climbing area in Mexico*Potrero Point, a land mass extending into San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California*Point Potrero, Richmond, California...
means pasture land used for breeding horses (potros). The name of this station refers to the nearby potreros that existed in the zone in early 20th century.
Metro Potrero stands on Avenida Insurgentes Norte
Avenida de los Insurgentes
Avenida de los Insurgentes , sometimes known simply as Insurgentes, is the longest avenue in Mexico City and said to be the longest in the world with a length of on a north-south axis across the city...
and serves the Guadalupe Insurgentes and Colonia Calputitlan neighbourhoods. The station opened on 1 December 1979