Guelatao metro station

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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).

LocationCalzada Ignacio Zaragoza
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19.385162°N 99.03574°W / 19.385162; -99.03574
OwnerGovernment of Mexico City
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Pictogram of Guelatao metro station. It features the silhouette of the head of a man. Guelatao
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People waiting seated on the station platform.
Station platform, 2008
General information
LocationCalzada Ignacio Zaragoza
Iztapalapa, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19.385162°N 99.03574°W / 19.385162; -99.03574
SystemMexico City Metro
OwnerGovernment of Mexico City
OperatorSistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
  • Red de Transporte de Pasajeros Routes: 162-B, 163, 163-A, 163-B, 164, 166, 167
  • Mexico City minubus Route: 9-D
Construction
Structure type
At grade
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened12 August 1991; 35 years ago (1991-08-12)
Passengers
20256,270,222[1][a]Increase 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 is located in Mexico City
Guelatao
Pictogram of Guelatao metro station. It features the silhouette of the head of a man. Guelatao
Location within Mexico City
Area map and layout
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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 metro station along an avenue.
The station's exterior in 2018

Guelatao is an at-grade metro station along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Colonias (neighborhoods) of Ejército de Oriente and Voceadores, in Iztapalapa, eastern Mexico City.[2][3]

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).[4]

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[5] and by Routes 162-B, 163, 163-A, 163-B, 164, 166, and 167 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.[6]

History and construction

Line A of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]

Name and pictogram

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.[10]

Incidents

The area that follows Guelatao, toward La Paz, floods frequently during heavy rain.[11][12][13]

Ridership

Graphic showing daily ridership
Daily ridership for Guelatao station in 2024

According to official data, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station recorded between 10,500 and 21,700 average daily entries from 2016 to 2019. In 2025, it recorded 6,270,222 passengers, ranking 72nd among the system's 195 stations.[1]

More information Annual passenger ridership, Year ...
Annual passenger ridership[a]
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
20256,270,22217,17872/195+2.65%[1]
20246,108,16416,68870/195−10.21%[1]
20236,802,96718,63862/195+31.07%[1]
20225,190,30914,22084/195+35.14%[1]
20213,840,75910,52278/195−1.11%[14]
20203,883,86310,61193/195−50.83%[15]
20197,898,50621,63978/195+15.27%[16]
20186,852,44118,77391/195+5.93%[17]
20176,469,02617,723102/195−5.37%[18]
20166,836,20818,67895/195−17.35%[19]
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Notes

  1. 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".

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