Coyuya metro station

Coyuya is a station on the Mexico City Metro.[2][3]

"Metro Coyuya" redirects here. For the Metrobús station, see Metrobús Metro Coyuya (Line 5).
Coyuya
STC rapid transit
Coordinates19.398521°N 99.113545°W / 19.398521; -99.113545
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Canela
Metro Coyuya
Metro Coyuya
Construction
Structure typeSurface
History
Opened20 July 1994
Passengers
20188,279,437[1]
Rank71/195[1]
Services
Preceding station STC Following station
Santa Anita
toward Garibaldi / Lagunilla
 Line 8 Iztacalco
toward Constitución de 1917
Location
Coyuya
Location within Mexico City Central

General information

Coyuya is on Line 8, between Metro Santa Anita and Metro Iztacalco.[2][3] It is located in the Iztacalco borough, in the eastern portion of the Mexican Federal District, and serves the Colonia Tlazintla district and neighbourhoods surrounding Avenida Coyuya, Avenida Francisco del Paso y Troncoso (eje 3-Ote), and Avenida Plutarco Elías Calles (eje 4-Sur).[2] A surface station, it was first opened to public passenger traffic on 20 July 1994.[4]

Name and iconography

The station logo depicts the ankle of an Aztec dancer festooned with a cuff-rattle made from nutshells – a pre-Hispanic musical instrument known by the Spanish name cascabel.[2][3] "Coyuya" is a Nahuatl toponym that means "place where cascabeles are made".[2]

References
  1. "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. "Coyuya" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  3. Archambault, Richard. "Coyuya » Mexico City Metro System". Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  4. Monroy, Marco. Schwandl, Robert (ed.). "Opening Dates for Mexico City's Subway". Retrieved 20 August 2011.


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