Balderas Mexico City Metro Mexico City Metro The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

Cuauhtémoc

Metro Cuauhtémoc

Metro Cuauhtémoc is a metro station on the Mexico City Metro.It is located at the northern extreme of Avenida Cuauhtémoc, in the Cuauhtémoc borough, in the centre of Mexico City.The station logo depicts the head of an eagle...

Line 1

Mexico City Metro Line 1

Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first to be built, the identifying color is pink and runs through the city from west to east....

Salto del Agua

Metro Salto del Agua

Metro Salto del Agua is a metro station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in the centre of Mexico City....

Juárez

Metro Juárez

Metro Juárez is a metro station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.The station logo depicts the bust of Benito Juárez , who served as president of Mexico for a long period in the 19th century. This station's name, along with Metro Guelatao, refers to...

Line 3

Mexico City Metro Line 3

Mexico City Metro Line 3 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.Line 3 is the longest line, its color is olive green and it runs from north to south of the city covering almost all of it....

Niños Héroes

Metro Niños Héroes

Metro Niños Héroes is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.The station logo represents a kepi. Its name refers to the heroic cadets who died defending the military academy in Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War. The...

Metro Balderas is an underground station

Metro station

A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 on the Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc, D.F.

Cuauhtémoc, named after the former Aztec leader, is one of the 16 boroughs of the Federal district of Mexico City. It consists of the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire city in the 1920s. This area is the historic and culture center of the city, although it is not the...

 borough in the center of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. It is a transfer station along Lines 1 and 3. The station logo depicts the colonial-era cannon

Cannon

A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellents to launch a projectile. Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees,...

 preserved on the nearby Plaza de La Ciudadela.

Nearby Metro Balderas are some interesting places, like La Ciudadela market, filled with Mexican handicrafts, the José Vasconcelos Central Library of Mexico City, and facilities of broadcaster Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

. Next to the library lies a tianguis

Tianguis

A tianguis is an open air market or bazaar that is traditionally held on certain market days in a town or city neighborhood in Mexico and Central America. This bazaar tradition has its roots well into the pre-Hispanic period and continues in many cases essentially unchanged into the present day....

(street market) full of books old and new, comics, collectibles, etc.

This station has an information desk and facilities for the disabled. It also displays a plaque unveiled on 19 September 2004, celebrating Mexican rock musician Rodrigo "Rockdrigo" González, killed exactly 19 years earlier in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake

1985 Mexico City earthquake

The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Mexico City on the early morning of 19 September 1985 at around 7:19 AM , caused the deaths of at least 10,000 people and serious damage to the greater Mexico City Area. The complete seismic event...

 and composer of a song titled "Metro Balderas

Metro Balderas (song)

"Metro Balderas", as it is generally known, or more precisely, "Estación del metro Balderas" , a song by Mexican Rock Musician Rodrigo González or "Rockdrigo" González, refers to a man looking for a woman who got lost in the crowd at Mexico City Metro station Metro Balderas.This song, along with...

".

Although this station is totally underground, cellular phone signals (GSM and TDMA

Time division multiple access

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for several providers) are able to reach the platform.

2009 shooting

On Friday, 18 September 2009 a shooting occurred on the platform. A man was painting the walls on the station and was then confronted by an officer. He reacted by taking out a gun and killing a police officer and a construction worker, leaving also five wounded.

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