Avenida Constituyentes is a highway running east/west in western

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. Serving as the principal access road to the Santa Fe business district, it frequently experiences traffic jams. It is named in honor of the

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. The avenue runs through

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and

Miguel Hidalgo Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo (), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican Wa ...

districts.

Attractions

Chapultepec Park Chapultepec, more commonly called the "Bosque de Chapultepec" (Chapultepec Forest) in Mexico City, is one of the largest Nature Value Area´s in Mexico, measuring in total just over . Centered on a rock formation called Chapultepec Hill, one of ...

, Casa Luis Barragán,

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and Museo de Historia Natural are adjacent to the boulevard.

Neighborhoods

San Miguel Chapultepec San Miguel Chapultepec is a colonia or neighborhood in Delegación Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City. Its borders are: * Avenida Constituyentes and Avenida Chapultepec on the west, bordering Chapultepec Park * The Circuito Interior José Vasconc ...

* Daniel Garza * Observatorio * América * Las Américas * Las Palmas * Belén de las Flores * Lomas Altas * Industrias Militares de Sedena * Lomas de Santa Fe

Metro

Constituyentes metro station Constituyentes is a station on Mexico City Metro Line 7, Line 7 of the Mexico City Rapid transit, metro on the western outskirts of the city center. It serves Chapultepec#Chapultepec Park today, Chapultepec Park and numerous attractions therein, ...

is a station on Line 7 of the

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on the western outskirts of the city center. The station's icon shows a quill, a pot of ink and a book, in reference to the Mexican constitutions of

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and

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. Constituyentes serves the

and Ampliación Daniel Garza neighborhoods, in the

borough.

Attractions

Neighborhoods

Metro

References

See also