Santa Anita is a
station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
* Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
* Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
** Cattle statio ...
on the
Mexico City Metro. Located in
Mexico City's
Iztacalco borough, the station is the current terminal of
Line 4.
General information
The station logo depicts a man sailing a canoe. This is because in the early 20th century, in the area where the station now stands, was the Santa Anita canal – a place used for ''
chinampa
Chinampa ( nah, chināmitl ) is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico. They are built up on wetlands of a lake o ...
''-based agriculture. Today the canal has long since vanished, but the name Santa Anita is still used by the surrounding neighborhood.
Metro Line 4 was originally projected to end in the
Villa Coapa
Tlalpan ( nci, Tlālpan, , place on the earth, ) is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. It is the largest borough, with over eighty percent under conservation as forest and other ecologically sensitive area. The rest, almost ...
neighborhood, in the southern borough of
Coyoacán. Since the inauguration of Line B, however, no more lines have been constructed or extended, so Metro Santa Anita – and other stations, such as
Metro Barranca del Muerto – officially remain provisional terminals. Metro Santa Anita is the least busy station on the Mexico City Metro, with only 621,867 passenger boardings in 2008.
Santa Anita was originally to be named "Plutarco E. Calles", in honor of
President Plutarco Elías Calles, according to early plans for Line 4.
Ridership
Exits
Line 4
*Avenida Congreso de la Unión between Canal Nacional street and
Viaducto Miguel Alemán, Colonia Santa Anita
Line 8
*East: Avenida Coyuya and
Viaducto Miguel Alemán, Colonia Santa Anita
*West: Avenida Coyuya and
Viaducto Miguel Alemán, Colonia Santa Anita
References
External links
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Santa Anita
Railway stations opened in 1982
1982 establishments in Mexico
Railway stations opened in 1994
1994 establishments in Mexico
Mexico City Metro stations in Iztacalco
Mexico City Metro Line 8 stations
Railway stations located underground in Mexico
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