Tepito Station platforms 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...

Morelos

Metro Morelos

Morelos is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is locatedin Venustiano Carranza borough, in the north of Mexico City. The station logo depicts the profile of José María Morelos y Pavón, second instigator of the War of Independence of 1810...

Line B
Lagunilla

Metro Lagunilla

Lagunilla is a station along Line B of the Mexico City Metro located north of the center of Mexico City, near the famous market with the same name ....

Tepito is a station of the Metro B line located north of the center of México 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...

 in the barrio Tepito

Tepito

Tepito is a barrio located in Colonia Morelos in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City bordered by Avenida del Trabajo, Paseo de la Reforma, Eje 1 and Eje 2. Most of the neighborhood is taken up by the colorful tianguis or open-air market. Tepito’s economy has been linked to tianguis or traditional...

 in the Colonia Morelos

Colonia Morelos

Colonia Morelos is a colonia located just north of the historic center of Mexico City in the Cuauhtémoc borough. It has been a poor area since Aztec times, with many residents today living in large tenements called vecindades. The area, particularly the Tepito neighborhood, is known for crime,...

 district of 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...

 delegation. The station's logo represents a boxing glove. Many Mexican boxers were born and raised in Tepito, like Rubén Olivares

Rubén Olivares

Rubén Olivares is a former Mexican boxer and current member of the Boxing Hall of Fame. A native of Mexico City, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time. He was very popular among Mexicans, many of whom considered him...

"El Púas" ("spikes"). Today, Tepito is an infamous zone in Mexico City, due to the high level of drug trafficking, counterfeiting, and violent crime.

The station was opened on 15 December 1999.

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