General Anaya is a station on Line 2 of the

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system. It is located in the

Coyoacán Coyoacán ( , ) is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. The former village is now the borough's "historic center". The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means "place of coyotes", when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic vil ...

borough of

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, directly south of the city centre in the median of

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, and right next to the

Estudios Churubusco Estudios Churubusco is one of the oldest and largest movie studios in Mexico. It is located in the Churubusco neighborhood of Mexico City. History It was inaugurated in 1945 after a 1943 agreement between RKO and Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (o ...

. It is a surface station.

General information

The station logo shows a military officer standing next to a cannon, this due to the fact that the station is named after General Pedro María Anaya, commander of the Mexican forces during the 1847

Battle of Churubusco The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, while Santa Anna's army was in retreat from the Battle of Contreras or Battle of Padierna during the Mexican–American War. It was the battle where the San Patricio Battalion, made up ...

of the

Mexican–American War The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1 ...

. The battle happened around the small

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

of Churubusco, located not far away from the station. The monastery was later turned into the

Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones The Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones (National Museum of the Interventions) is located in the former Monastery of San Diego Churubusco, which was built on top of an Aztec shrine. The museum is split into two sections. The downstairs is dedic ...

and still exhibits some of the artillery used during the battle. The station opened on 1 August 1970.

Ridership

Nearby

*Parque Masayoshi Ōhira, park dedicated to the friendship between Mexico and Japan. *

, National Museum of the Interventions. *Club Campestre de la Ciudad de México, country club. *

, movie studios. *Centro Nacional de las Artes, national center of arts, housing the national schools of

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, performing arts, classic and

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, music and painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Exits

*East: Calzada de Tlalpan between Corredores street and Ciclistas street, Colonia Country Club *West: Calzada de Tlalpan between 20 de agosto street and Callejón General Anaya, Colonia Churubusco

Gallery

Image:Mexico City Metro.jpg, A metro approaching Metro General Anaya from the north

References

External links

{{Coyoacán General Anaya Railway stations opened in 1970 1970 establishments in Mexico Mexico City Metro stations in Coyoacán Accessible Mexico City Metro stations