Metro Tasqueña

Metro Tasqueña (sometimes also spelled Taxqueña) is a station on Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro system.[2] It is located in the Campestre Churubusco neighborhood, within the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City, directly south of the city centre on Avenida Tasqueña and Canal de Miramontes.[2] It is a surface station and the southern terminus of the line.[2] In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 83,463 passengers per day, making it the seventh busiest station in the network.[3]

Tasqueña
STC rapid transit
Station platforms
LocationCampestre Churubusco, Coyoacán
Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°20′39″N 99°08′34″W
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeSurface
Platform levels1
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
History
Opened1 August 1970
Traffic
Passengers (2018)29,175,678[1]
Rank7/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
General Anaya
toward Cuatro Caminos
 Line 2 Terminus
Preceding station STE Following station
Terminus Xochimilco Light Rail Las Torres
toward Xochimilco
Route map
 Cuatro Caminos
State of Mexico
Mexico City
 Panteones
 Tacuba
Cuitláhuac
 Popotla
 Colegio Militar
 Normal
 San Cosme
 Revolución
 Hidalgo
Bellas Artes
Allende
 Zócalo
 Pino Suárez
San Antonio Abad
 Chabacano
Viaducto
 Xola
 Villa de Cortés
 Nativitas
 Portales
 Ermita
General Anaya
 Tasqueña
Tasqueña yard
Location
Tasqueña
Location within Mexico City

General information

The station icon represents a crescent moon. The name comes from Avenida Tasqueña, which in turn took it from Taxco, Guerrero, an important silver mining town during the colonial period.

Tasqueña connects Line 2 with the Xochimilco Light Rail line, which runs from this station to the borough of Xochimilco. It also connects with two trolleybus lines: route A, running between Tasqueña and Metro Autobuses del Norte, north of the city, and route K, running between Ciudad Universitaria (UNAM's main campus) and the San Lorenzo Teconzo campus of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM).

Entrance to the Tren Ligero at Tasqueña, 2008

Metro Tasqueña also serves Mexico City's southern bus depot, which serves important cities like Cuernavaca, Acapulco, Taxco, and the rest of southern Mexico.

The station has four hexagonal murals from Alberto Castro Leñero: "Fuego", "Aliento", "Azul" y "Horizontal". Each mural is 11 meters high and 3 meters wide. The murals are made of pieces of talavera and polychromatic ceramic.[4]

The terminal currently causes major traffic problems in the neighborhood, mainly by public buses and taxi cabs trying to cruise and flow into the terminals to pick up passengers both from the subway and the regional bus lines. It has become a major gathering center for informal merchants, selling of illegally reproduced media, prostitution and environment pollution.

Nearby
  • Terminal Central de Autobuses del Sur, bus depot.

Exits
  • South: Between Calzada Taxqueña, Canal de Miramontes and Calzada de Tlalpan, Campestre Churubusco
  • North: Canal de Miramontes and Cerro de Jesús street, Campestre Churubusco

See also

References
  1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  2. "Tasqueña" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  3. "Estaciones de mayor afluencia 2019" (in Spanish). Metro CDMX. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403043953/http://www.metro.df.gob.mx/cultura2/murelementos.html
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