Guelatao metro station

Guelatao
Station platform, 2008
General information
LocationCalzada Ignacio Zaragoza
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°23′07″N 99°02′09″W / 19.385162°N 99.03574°W / 19.385162; -99.03574
SystemMexico City Metro
Owned byGovernment of Mexico City
Operated bySistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line (Pantitlán – La Paz)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
  • Routes: 162-B, 163, 163-A, 163-B, 164, 166, 167
  • Route: 9-D
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened12 August 1991 (1991-08-12)
Passengers
20256,270,222[1][a]  2.65%
Rank72/195[1][a]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
Tepalcates
toward Pantitlán
 Line A Peñón Viejo
toward La Paz
Location
Guelatao
Location within Mexico City
Area map and layout

Guelatao metro station[b] is a Mexico City Metro station in the city's borough of Iztapalapa. It is an at-grade stop that serves Line A (Purple Line) between Tepalcates and Peñón Viejo, servicing the colonias (neighborhoods) of Ejército de Oriente and Voceadores. The station provides access to the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Zaragoza of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Guelatao metro station is named after the town of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, where Benito Juárez, the 26th president of Mexico, was born. Its pictogram depicts the sculpture on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez, found near the station. The stop opened on 12 August 1991 providing service northwest toward Pantitlán and southeast toward La Paz. In 2025, the station had an average daily entrance of 17,178 passengers.

Location and layout

Guelatao is an at-grade metro station along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in eastern Mexico City.[2][3] It serves the Colonias (neighborhoods) of Ejército de Oriente and Voceadores in Iztapalapa.[2] The station's pictogram features the silhouette of the sculpture atop the nearby Cabeza de Juárez museum. The artwork depicts the head of Benito Juárez, who served as president of Mexico from 1858 to 1872.[2] Juárez was born in the town of San Pablo Guelatao, in Guelatao Municipality, Oaxaca; the word guelatao means "enchanted lagoon" in Zapotec.[4]

Guelatao metro station has two exits along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza. The northern exit is at the corner of Calle General Miguel Lira y Ortega in Colonia Voceadores and the southern one is at Calle Batallón de la Zacapoaxtla in Colonia Ejército de Oriente.[2] The station provides access to the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Zaragoza of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[5]

The station is located between Tepalcates and Peñón Viejo stations on the line.[2] The area is serviced by Route 9-D of the city's public bus system[6] and by Routes 162-B, 163, 163-A, 163-B, 164, 166, and 167 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.[7]

History and construction

Line A of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA.[8] The line was opened on 12 August 1991, operating from Pantitlán to La Paz, located in the municipality of the same name of the State of Mexico.[9] The stretch between Guelatao and Tepalcates spans 1,161 meters (3,809 ft), while the segment toward Peñón Viejo measures 2,206 meters (7,238 ft), the longest interstation section of the system.[10]

Ridership

According to the data provided by the authorities, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 10,500 and 21,700 daily entrances between 2015 and 2019.

The station had a ridership of 6,270,222 passengers in 2025, marking an increase of 162,058 passengers compared to 2024, and ranked as the 72nd busiest station out of the system's 195 stations.[1]

Annual passenger ridership[a]
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
2025 6,270,222 17,178 72/195 +2.65% [1]
2024 6,108,164 16,688 70/195 −10.21% [1]
2023 6,802,967 18,638 62/195 +31.07% [1]
2022 5,190,309 14,220 84/195 +35.14% [1]
2021 3,840,759 10,522 78/195 −1.11% [11]
2020 3,883,863 10,611 93/195 −50.83% [12]
2019 7,898,506 21,639 78/195 +15.27% [13]
2018 6,852,441 18,773 91/195 +5.93% [14]
2017 6,469,026 17,723 102/195 −5.37% [15]
2016 6,836,208 18,678 95/195 −17.35% [16]
  • The sculpture on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez served as the inspiration for the station's pictogram.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c The data here is limited to the most recent ten years to avoid excessive listings; earlier figures can be found in this page's history or on the Mexico City Metro website. To calculate the average daily ridership, the annual total is divided by 365 days (366 in leap years), with decimals omitted from the result. Each station per line is ranked individually, as the system counts transfer stations separately. The percentage change is calculated automatically using the data from the current year and the previous year.
  2. ^ Estación del Metro Guelatao. Spanish pronunciation: [ge.la'tao] ⓘ. The etymology comes from the Zapotec language, "Enchanted lagoon".

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Afluencia de estación por línea (2022–presente)" [Station traffic by line (2022–present)] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2025. Archived from the original on 8 February 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Guelatao" (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Metro CDMX: ¿Cuáles son las líneas que circulan por arriba como la Línea 12, es peligroso usarlas?" [Mexico City Metro: Which lines are elevated like Line 12, and is it dangerous to ride them?]. El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). 4 May 2021. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Guelatao de Juárez" (in Spanish). Secreariat of Tourism of Oaxaca. 25 September 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  5. ^ Jiménez, Gerardo (8 October 2012). "Diputadas se deslindan de ambulantaje en FES Zaragoza" [Legislators dissociate themselves from street vending at FES Zaragoza]. Excélsior (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 March 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Red de corredores" [Route network] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Red de Rutas" [Routes network] (in Spanish). Red de Transporte de Pasajeros. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Línea A, Metro Ligero" [Line A, Light Train] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  9. ^ Escobedo, Alina (22 September 2021). "¿Cuáles son las estaciones de la Línea A del Metro de la CDMX?" [Which are the stations of the Mexico City Metro Line A?]. Noticieros Televisa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Longitud de estación a estación por línea" [Length from station to station by line] (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic by line in 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic by line in 2020] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic by line in 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic by line in 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  15. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic by line in 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic by line in 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  • Media related to Estación Guelatao (Metro de México) at Wikimedia Commons
  • "Metro Guelatao". At the Official Guide to Mexico City.
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