Mixiuhca metro station

Mixiuhca is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro serving the Jardín Balbuena and Colonia Magdalena Mixiuhca districts in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City, Mexico.^[2][3]

Mixiuhca
STC rapid transit
General information
Location	Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19°24′31″N 99°06′46″W
Line(s)	(Tacubaya - Pantitlán)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Mixiuhca
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	26 August 1987
Passengers
2023	7,080,229[1]  3.81%
Rank	55/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Jamaica toward Tacubaya Line 9 Velódromo toward Pantitlán
Route map Legend proposed extension Observatorio proposed extension Tacubaya Patriotismo Chilpancingo Centro Médico Lázaro Cárdenas Chabacano Jamaica Mixiuhca Velódromo Ciudad Deportiva Puebla Pantitlán This diagram: view talk edit
Location Mixiuhca Location within Mexico City Area map

The station's icon is a silhouette of a woman holding a newborn baby.^[2][3] In the Nahuatl language mixiuhca means "place of births".^[2] The origin of this name comes from one of the Aztecs' migration stories. When the Aztecs first came to the Valley of Mexico, they lived for a long time in a place called Tizapan. However, they were violently expelled from there.^[2] Legend states that they ran out to the surrounding swamps using their shields and spears as rafts for the women and children.^[2] They ran across three places: Mexicaltzingo, Iztacalco and Temazcaltitlán, and precisely there, in that last place, one of the women gave birth to a child.^[2] From then on, the name of that place became Mixiuhca.^[2]

The station was opened on 26 August 1987.^[4] From 23 April to 21 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.^[5][6]

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	7,080,229	19,397	55/195	+3.81%	[1]
2022	6,820,483	18,686	51/195	+55.45%	[7]
2021	4,387,575	12,020	66/195	+15.90%	[8]
2020	3,785,696	10,343	98/195	−43.45%	[9]
2019	6,694,736	18,341	98/195	+1.30%	[10]
2018	6,608,798	18,106	101/195	−1.72%	[11]
2017	6,724,486	18,423	94/195	−4.06%	[12]
2016	7,009,299	19,151	92/195	−1.91%	[13]
2015	7,145,429	19,576	89/195	−2.81%	[14]
2014	7,351,812	20,141	88/195	−4.18%	[15]

Gallery

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  Stone glyph symbolizing the Metro station Mixiuhca located on the eastbound platform

References

1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2023" [Station traffic per line 2023] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2024. Archived from the original on 27 January 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
2. "Mixiuhca" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
3. Archambault, Richard. "Mixiuhca » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 21 August 2011.
4. Monroy, Marco. Schwandl, Robert (ed.). "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Retrieved 20 August 2011.
5. "Cierre temporal de estaciones" (PDF) (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
6. Hernández, Eduardo (13 June 2020). "Coronavirus. Este es el plan para reabrir estaciones del Metro, Metrobús y Tren ligero". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2020.
7. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2022" [Station traffic per line 2022] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2023. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
8. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic per line 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
9. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic per line 2020] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
10. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
11. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic per line 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
12. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic per line 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
13. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic per line 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
14. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2015" [Station traffic per line 2015] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
15. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2014" [Station traffic per line 2014] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

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