Guelatao metro station

Guelatao
STC rapid transit
Station platform, 2008
General information
Location	Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza Iztapalapa, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19.385162°N 99.03574°W / 19.385162; -99.03574
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Pantitlán – La Paz)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Routes: 162-B, 163, 163-A, 163-B, 164, 166, 167 Route: 9-D
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	12 August 1991
Passengers
2023	6,802,967[1]  31.07%
Rank	62/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Tepalcates toward Pantitlán Line A Peñón Viejo toward La Paz
Route map Pantitlán Agrícola Oriental Canal de San Juan Tepalcates Guelatao Peñón Viejo Acatitla Santa Marta Mexico City State of Mexico Los Reyes La Paz This diagram: view talk edit
Location Guelatao Location within Mexico City Area map and layout

Guelatao metro station[a] is a Mexico City Metro station in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. It is an at-grade station that serves Line A (the Purple Line) between Tepalcates and Peñón Viejo stations.

The station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of Ejército de Oriente and Voceadores. The station's pictogram depicts the sculpture on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez, found near the station, which in turn depicts the head of Benito Juárez, the 26th president of Mexico, who was born in the town of San Pablo Guelatao, Guelatao Municipality, Oaxaca. Guelatao metro station opened on 12 August 1991 with service westward toward Pantitlán station and eastward toward La Paz metro station. In 2019, the station had an average daily entrance of 21,639 passengers.

Location

The station's exterior in 2018

Guelatao is a metro station along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in eastern Mexico City. The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Ejército de Oriente and Voceadores in Iztapalapa. Within the system, the station lies between Tepalcates and Peñón Viejo metro stations.[2] The area is serviced by Route 9-D of the city's public bus system[3] and by Routes 162-B, 163, 163-A, 163-B, 164, 166, and 167 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.[4] The station serves the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Zaragoza of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[5]

Exits

There are two exits:[2]

• North: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and General Miguel Lira y Ortega Street, Voceadores.
• South: Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza and Batallón de la Zacapoaxtla Street, Ejército de Oriente.

History and construction

Line A of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA.[6] The line was opened on 12 August 1991, operating westward towards Pantitlán station and eastward towards La Paz station, located in the municipality of the same name of the State of Mexico.[7] Guelatao is an at-grade station;[8] the Guelatao–Tepalcates section is 1,161 meters (3,809 ft) long, while the Guelatao–Peñón Viejo section measures 2,206 meters (7,238 ft), the longest of the system.[9] The station's pictogram features the sculpture found on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez, a nearby museum, which in turn depicts the head of Benito Juárez, the president of Mexico from 1858 to 1872.[2] Juárez himself was born in the town of San Pablo Guelatao, in Guelatao Municipality, Oaxaca. The word guelatao means "enchanted lagoon" in Zapotec.[10]

Ridership

According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, commuters have averaged per year between 10,500 and 24,300 daily entrances in the last decade, In 2019, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, the station's ridership totaled 7,898,506 passengers,[11] which was an increase of 1,046,065 passengers compared to 2018.[12] In the same year, Guelatao metro station was the 78th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's fourth busiest.[11]

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	6,802,967	18,638	62/195	+31.07%	[1]
2022	5,190,309	14,220	84/195	+35.14%	[13]
2021	3,840,759	10,522	78/195	−1.11%	[14]
2020	3,883,863	10,611	93/195	−50.83%	[15]
2019	7,898,506	21,639	78/195	+15.27%	[11]
2018	6,852,441	18,773	91/195	+5.93%	[12]
2017	6,469,026	17,723	102/195	−5.37%	[16]
2016	6,836,208	18,678	95/195	−17.35%	[17]
2015	8,271,546	22,661	74/195	+29.73%	[18]
2014	6,376,070	17,468	102/195	+0.57%	[19]

Gallery

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  The sculpture on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez served as the inspiration for the station's pictogram.

Notes

1. Estación del Metro Guelatao. Spanish pronunciation: [ge.la'tao] ^ⓘ. The etymology comes from the Zapotec language, "Enchanted lagoon".

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. "Guelatao" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
3. "Red de corredores" [Route network] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
4. "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
5. Jiménez, Gerardo (8 October 2012). "Diputadas se deslindan de ambulantaje en FES Zaragoza" [Legislators distance themselves from street vendors in FES Zaragoza]. Excélsior (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 March 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
6. "Línea A, Metro Ligero" [Line A, Light Train] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
7. Escobedo, Alina (22 September 2021). "¿Cuáles son las estaciones de la Línea A del Metro de la CDMX?" [Which are the stations of the Mexico City Metro Line A?]. Noticieros Televisa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
8. "Metro CDMX: ¿Cuáles son las líneas que circulan por arriba como la Línea 12, es peligroso usarlas?" [Metro CDMX: Like Line 12, which lines are elevated; is it dangerous to ride them?]. El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). 4 May 2021. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
9. "Longitud de estación a estación por línea" [Station-to-station length per line] (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
10. "Guelatao de Juárez" (in Spanish). Secreariat of Tourism of Oaxaca. 25 September 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
11. "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.
12. "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.
13. "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.
14. "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.
15. "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.
16. "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.
17. "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.
18. "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.
19. "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.

External links

• Media related to Estación Guelatao (Metro de México) at Wikimedia Commons
• "Metro Guelatao". At the Official Guide to Mexico City.