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, directly south of the city centre on Avenida Tasqueña and Canal de Miramontes. It is a surface station and the southern terminus of the line. In 2019, the station had an average ridership of 83,463 passengers per day, making it the seventh busiest station in the network.

General information

The station's name comes from Avenida Tasqueña, which in turn was taken from

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, an important

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mining town during the colonial period. The station icon represents a crescent

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. Tasqueña connects Line 2 with the

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line, which runs from this station to the borough of

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. It also connects with two

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lines: route A, running between Tasqueña and Metro Autobuses del Norte, north of the city, and route K, running between Ciudad Universitaria (

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's main campus) and the San Lorenzo Teconzo campus of the ''Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México'' (UACM). Entrada al TL

Metro Tasqueña also serves Mexico City'
southern bus depot
which serves important cities like

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, and the rest of southern

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. The station has four hexagonal murals from Alberto Castro Leñero: "Fuego", "Aliento", "Azul" y "Horizontal". Each mural is 11 meters high and 3 meters wide. The murals are made of pieces of talavera and polychromatic ceramic. The terminal currently causes major traffic problems in the neighborhood, mainly by public buses and taxi cabs trying to cruise and flow into the terminals to pick up passengers both from the subway and the regional bus lines. It has become a major gathering center for informal merchants, selling of illegally reproduced media, prostitution and environmental pollution.

Nearby

*Terminal Central de Autobuses del Sur, bus depot.

Exits

*South: Between Calzada Taxqueña, Canal de Miramontes and Calzada de Tlalpan, Campestre Churubusco *North: Canal de Miramontes and Cerro de Jesús street, Campestre Churubusco

Ridership

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