Metro Tacuba 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....

 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 Tacuba district of the 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, to the west of downtown 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 lies along Lines 2 and 7.

The station logo depicts three flowers, as its name comes from the Nahuatl language word tlacopan, that which means "land of flowers". It refers to the ancient Tepanec

Tepanec

The Tepanecs or Tepaneca are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries. The Tepanec were a sister culture of the Aztecs as well as the Acolhua and others—these tribes spoke the Nahuatl language and shared the same general pantheon, with...

 kingdom of Tlacopan that existed in the area in pre-Columbian

Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...

 times.

This transfer station was previously the terminal for Metro Line 2

Mexico City Metro Line 2

Mexico City Metro Line 2 is one of the 11 lines of the Mexico City Metro.Line 2 is the second of the network, the color that identifies it is blue and it runs from west to east and north to south, turning at the city center...

 and opened for service along that line on 14 September 1970. Service was extended westward along Line 2 from Tacuba to Panteones

Metro Panteones

Panteones is a station serving Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia Argentina district of the Miguel Hidalgo borough of the Mexican Federal District. Panteón means "cemetery" in Spanish; the station's name and logo come from the nearby graveyards. The station was opened...

 and Cuatro Caminos

Metro Cuatro Caminos

Metro Cuatro Caminos is a station of the Mexico City metro network. It is the current north terminus of Line 2 and serves as a hub for regional transport from and into the State of México....

 on 22 August 1984. Line 7 opened up through Tacuba on 20 December 1984. Today it transfers not only to Line 7 but also to a nearby mini-bus base, which serves boroughs Azcapotzalco

Azcapotzalco

Azcapotzalco is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. Azcapotzalco is in the northwestern part of Mexico City...

 and 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...

. Within the station facilities there is a cultural display and an information desk.

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