Coyoacán is a

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along Line 3 of the

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. It is located in the Benito Juárez borough of

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. It is at the intersection of Universidad and Coyoacán avenues. Right outside the station lies the

Centro Coyoacán Centro Coyoacán, also known as Centro Comercial Coyoacán, was a shopping mall located on Av. Coyoacán and Av. Universidad in Mexico City, Mexico. The mall was closed on 19 September 2022 and the area will be incorporated into the adjacent Mít ...

shopping mall,

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and Bancomer headquarters. It is also close to the Cineteca Nacional and

Coyoacán Coyoacán ( ; , Otomi: ) 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- ...

district.

General information

The station logo depicts a

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. In fact, the

Náhuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller pop ...

word of ''Coyohuacan'' means ''place of coyotes''. According to early plans for Line 3, the station was originally destined to be known as Metro Bancomer, after Centro Bancomer, a banking center located above the station. This being a commercial name, metro authorities decided instead to name the station after nearby Avenida Coyoacán which leads to the popular downtown section of

. The station opened on 30 August 1983 as part of a southward extension of the line. This station has a cultural display, which houses temporary exhibits by art students. Metro Coyoacán serves the

Colonia del Valle Colonia Del Valle ( Spanish: ''Del Valle neighborhood'') is a Colonia in the Benito Juarez borough of Mexico City. Founded as an aristocratic recreational neighborhood during the Porfiriato era, it has witnessed the various transformations ...

and

Xoco Xoco is a neighborhood of Mexico City in Benito Juárez borough. Xoco was originally a village dating to before the Spanish conquest. Now it is an important commercial hot spot that lies just across the northern edge of Coyoacán. It is home to C ...

neighborhoods as well as Coyoacán.

Ridership

Nearby

*Cineteca Nacional, cinematheque.

Exits

*Northeast: Avenida Universidad and Real Mayorazgo street,

*Southeast: Avenida Universidad and Real Mayorazgo street,

*West: Martín Mendalde street,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coyoacan Mexico City Metro stations in Benito Juárez, Mexico City Coyoacan Railway stations located underground in Mexico Railway stations in Mexico opened in 1983