Metro Viveros
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Viveros 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 Coyoacán
Metro Coyoacán is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City. It is at the intersection of Universidad and Coyoacan avenues. Right outside the station lies the "Centro Coyoacan" shopping mall, Radio Formula and Bancomer...
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....
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
Metro Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
Metro Miguel Ángel de Quevedo is a station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in Mexico City's southern Coyoacán borough, at the junction of Avenida Miguel Ángel de Quevedo and Avenida Universidad.The station logo represents a tree...
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....
along 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....
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...
. It is located between the Álvaro Obregón
Álvaro Obregón
General Álvaro Obregón Salido was the President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. He was assassinated in 1928, shortly after winning election to another presidential term....
and Coyoacán
Coyoacán
Coyoacán refers to one of the sixteen boroughs of the Federal District of Mexico City as well as the former village which is now the borough’s “historic center.” The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means “place of coyotes,” when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore...
boroughs 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 silhouette of a plant, and the metro station is named after the nearby Viveros de Coyoacán
Viveros de Coyoacán
Viveros de Coyoacán is a combination tree nursery and public park which covers 38.9 hectares in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. The nursery was founded by Miguel Angel de Quevedo in the early 20th century as a way to provide seedlings for the reforestation of Mexico’s badly damaged forests,...
arboretum
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
and nursery
Nursery (horticulture)
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of...
(parts of which are a publicly accessible park and a popular area for recreation), founded by engineer Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo
For the journalist, please see Miguel Ángel QuevedoMiguel Ángel de Quevedo was a Mexican architect, engineer, and environmentalist who founded Mexico City's Viveros de Coyoacán arboretum, as well as numerous other construction projects in Mexico City, and throughout the country, and promoted the...
in the former ranch of Panzacola. The station opened on 30 August 1983.
Metro Viveros / Derechos Humanos serves the Colonia Barrio de Santa Catarina, Florida, and Axotla neighbourhoods, and is mainly used to link with the bus lines on Avenida Universidad.