Mixiuhca metro station

19°24′31″N 99°06′46″W / 19.408478°N 99.112902°W / 19.408478; -99.112902Line(s) (Tacubaya - Pantitlán)Platforms2 side platformsTracks2Connections MixiuhcaConstructionStructure typeUndergroundHistoryOpened26 August 1987Passengers20224,387,575^[1]  55.45%Rank51/195^[1] Services

Preceding station	Mexico City Metro			Following station
Jamaica toward Tacubaya		Line 9		Velódromo toward Pantitlán

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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]

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.
2022	6,820,483	18,686	51/195	+55.45%	[1]
2021	4,387,575	12,020	66/195	+15.90%	[7]
2020	3,785,696	10,343	98/195	−43.45%	[8]
2019	6,694,736	18,341	98/195	+1.30%	[9]
2018	6,608,798	18,106	101/195	−1.72%	[10]
2017	6,724,486	18,423	94/195	−4.06%	[11]
2016	7,009,299	19,151	92/195	−1.91%	[12]
2015	7,145,429	19,576	89/195	−2.81%	[13]
2014	7,351,812	20,141	88/195	−4.18%	[14]
2013	7,672,275	21,019	89/195	+0.99%	[15]
2012	7,597,062	20,757	88/195	−17.07%	[16]
2011	9,160,899	25,098	69/175	+28.24%	[17]
2010	7,143,325	19,570	79/175	–	[18]

Gallery

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

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