Metro Mixiuhca

Mixiuhca Mexico City Metro

Jamaica Line 9 Velódromo

Metro Mixiuhca is a metro station along Line 9 of the Mexico City Metro serving the Colonia Jardín Balbuena and Colonia Magdalena Mixiuhca districts in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City, Mexico.^[1][2] The station's icon is a silhouette of a woman holding a newborn baby.^[1][2] In the Nahuatl language mixiuhca means "place of births".^[1] 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.^[1]

Legend states that they ran out to the surrounding swamps using their shields and spears as rafts for the women and children.^[1] They ran across three places: Mexizalzingo, Iztacalco and Temazcaltitlán, and precisely there, in that last place, one of the women gave birth to a child.^[1] From then on, the name of that place became Mixiuhca.^[1]

The station was opened on 26 August 1987.^[3]

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  View of the Metro station Mixiuhca westbound platform

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

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Mixiuhca" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. http://www.metro.df.gob.mx/red/estacion.html?id=119. Retrieved 21 August 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Archambault, Richard. "Mixiuhca » Mexico City Metro System". http://mexicometro.org/metro/line9/mixiuhca/. Retrieved 21 August 2011. 
3. ^ Monroy, Marco. "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". In Schwandl, Robert. http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mexi/mex-history.htm. Retrieved 20 August 2011. 

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Coordinates: 19°24′31″N 99°06′46″W / 19.408478°N 99.112902°W / 19.408478; -99.112902