Metro Tasqueña is a station

Metro station

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 on Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

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 system. It is located in the Campestre Churubusco neighborhood, within the Coyoacán

Coyoacán

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 borough of Mexico City

Mexico City

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, directly south of the city centre on Avenida Tasqueña and Canal de Miramontes. It is a surface station and the southern terminus of the line.

The station icon represents a crescent moon

Moon

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. The name comes from Avenida Tasqueña, which in turn took it from Taxco

Taxco

Taxco de Alarcón is a small city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The name Taxco is most likely derived from the Nahuatl word tlacheco, which means “place of the ballgame.” However, one interpretation has the name coming from the word tatzco which means “where the father...

, Guerrero

Guerrero

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, an important silver

Silver

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 mining town during the colonial period

New Spain

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Tasqueña connects Line 2 with the Xochimilco Light Rail

Xochimilco Light Rail

The Xochimilco Light Rail is a light rail line that serves the southern part of Mexico City. It connects to, but is not considered a part of, the Mexico City Metro...

 line, which runs from this station to the borough of Xochimilco

Xochimilco

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. It also connects with two trolleybus

Trolleybus

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 lines: route A, running between Tasqueña and Metro Autobuses del Norte

Metro Autobuses del Norte

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, north of the city, and route K, running between Ciudad Universitaria

Ciudad Universitaria

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 (UNAM's main campus) and the San Lorenzo Teconzo campus of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM).

Metro Tasqueña also serves Mexico City's southern bus depot, which serves important cities like Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca

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, Acapulco

Acapulco

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, Taxco

Taxco

Taxco de Alarcón is a small city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The name Taxco is most likely derived from the Nahuatl word tlacheco, which means “place of the ballgame.” However, one interpretation has the name coming from the word tatzco which means “where the father...

, and the rest of southern Mexico

Mexico

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The terminal currently causes major traffic problems in the neighborhood, mainly by public buses and taxi cabs trying to cruise and flow into the terminals to pick up passengers both from the subway and the regional bus lines. It has become a major gathering center for informal merchants, selling of illegally reproduced media, prostitution and environment pollution. The Government of Mexico City has historically done nothing to improve the conditions of this terminal and its surroundings.