Metro Ecatepec
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Ecatepec Station logo 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... |
Metro Olímpica
Olímpica is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. The station is located at Avenida Central and Avenida Valle de Santiago in the Colonia Jardines de Aragón neighborhood and Avenida Grecia in the Colonia La Olimpica II neighborhood in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City.The...
Line B
Múzquiz
Metro Muzquiz
Múzquiz is a station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. The station was opened on 30 November 2000. It is named after Melchor Múzquiz who served as President of Mexico during the second half of 1832.- External links :...
Ecatepec is a 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 Line B of 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...
system. It is in the Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec City, once officially San Cristóbal Ecatepec de Morelos, is a city in the State of México and the seat of Ecatepec de Morelos Municipality; however, both the city and the municipality are often known simply as "Ecatepec". The name "Ecatepec" is derived from Nahuatl, and means "windy hill"....
city in the State of Mexico adjacent to Mexico City
Mexico City
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. The station opened on November 30, 2000, under its original name, Metro Tecnológico. The station's icon was the emblem of the Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Ecatepec, whose facilities are located nearby. On 23 July 2008, Francisco Bojórquez Hernández, director of the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro, and José Luis Gutiérrez Cureño, Ecatepec's municipal president, established an agreement to improve the security, quality, and efficacy of the services at the station. As part of their agreement, they decided to change the name and iconography of the station. On August 25, 2008, Metro Tenológico was renamed Metro Ecatepec, after the neighborhood where it is located.
The new station logo shows a Mexica
Mexica
The Mexica were a pre-Columbian people of central Mexico.Mexica may also refer to:*Mexica , a board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling*Mexica , a 2005 novel by Norman Spinrad...
based icon of Ehecatépetl a mountain whose top is the god of wind Ehecatl.