Metro La Raza
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Metro Potrero
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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....
Tlatelolco
Metro Tlatelolco
Metro Tlatelolco is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, to the north of the downtown area...
Metro Autobuses del Norte
Autobuses del Norte is a station on Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the north of Mexico City, in Gustavo A. Madero borough.The station's logo is a front view of an intercity bus, and the station's name means "northern buses"...
Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5 is one of the 11 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.It has as its color the color yellow and runs from the north to the east...
Misterios
Metro Misterios
Metro Misterios is a station on Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro. The station was opened on 1 July 1982. The station serves the Colonia Vallejo and Colonia Peralvillo neighborhoods of the Azcapotzalco borough in the northern portion of Mexico City....
Metro La Raza 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 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 a combined
subway and surface station, located in the Colonia Vallejo and Colonia Héroes de Nacozari neighbourhoods of the Gustavo A. Madero
Gustavo A. Madero, D.F.
Gustavo A. Madero is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided.-Origins:Founded as "Villa de Guadalupe" in 1563, it became the city of "Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo" in 1828, and finally a delegación in 1931; as such, it was named after Gustavo A. Madero, the brother...
borough, in the north 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...
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The station logo depicts the nearby La Raza Monument, a pyramid-shaped construction erected in honor to Mexico's many native peoples and cultures
Indigenous peoples of Mexico
Mexico, in the second article of its Constitution, is defined as a "pluricultural" nation in recognition of the diverse ethnic groups that constitute it, and in which the indigenous peoples are the original foundation...
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La Raza is a transfer station that combines underground construction for 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....
and surface construction for Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5 is one of the 11 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.It has as its color the color yellow and runs from the north to the east...
. The Insurgentes Metrobús
Metrobus
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bus rapid transit
Bus rapid transit
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line also has a stop in the vicinity of Metro La Raza. The station opened on 25 August 1978 with service on Line 3 southward towards Tlatelolco
Metro Tlatelolco
Metro Tlatelolco is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, to the north of the downtown area...
. Northward service on Line 3 towards Indios Verdes
Metro Indios Verdes
Indios Verdes is a station on the Mexico City Metro. Indios Verdes, located in the northern reaches of Mexico City, is the current terminal station for the Metro's Line 3.Indios Verdes literally means "Green Indians"...
started 1 December 1979. Southeasterly service along Line 5 towards Consulado
Metro Consulado
Metro Consulado is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located between Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza boroughs, in the north of Mexico City. The station logo depicts the transverse section of a water duct, and refers to a river encased in a duct that runs under nearby Avenida Río...
started on 1 July 1982, and the northeasterly service towards Politécnico
Metro Politécnico
Metro Politécnico is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the north of Mexico City, in the Gustavo A. Madero borough. It is the northern terminus for Line 5....
started on 30 August 1982.
This station has the largest cultural display in the entire Metro system, known as "El Túnel de la Ciencia" (The Tunnel of Science). This permanent exhibition was installed by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the extraordinarily long corridor that joins the Line 3 and Line 5 platforms.
Metro La Raza has also an information desk and office with miscellaneous information about the Metro, science and more, and facilities for the handicapped.