Portales metro station

Portales is a station on Line 2 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Colonia Albert and Colonia Portales neighborhoods of the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City, directly south of the city centre in the median of Calzada de Tlalpan.

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Type: Locality
Description: metro station in Mexico City
Also known as: “Portales” and “Portales station”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Frida Kahlo Museum and Eje Central metro station.

Frida Kahlo Museum

Museum

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The Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as The Blue House for the structure's cobalt-blue walls, is a historic house museum and art museum dedicated to the life and work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Eje Central metro station

Metro station

Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Eje Central is a station on Line 12 of the Mexico City Metro. The station is located between Parque de los Venados and Ermita. It was opened on 30 October 2012 as a part of the first stretch of Line 12 between Mixcoac and Tláhuac.

Leon Trotsky House Museum

Museum

Photo: Tonatiuh101, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Leon Trotsky House Museum, Trotsky Museum, or Trotsky House Museum, is a museum honoring Leon Trotsky and an organization that works to promote political asylum, located in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Churubusco and Xoco.

Churubusco

Quarter

Photo: Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot, Public domain.

Churubusco is a neighbourhood of Mexico City. It is a part of the borough of Coyoacán. It is centred on the former Franciscan monastery at. The name "Churubusco" is the interpretation the Spanish invaders gave to the original Nahuatl name Huitzilopochco – meaning "place of Huitzilopochtli".

Xoco

Quarter

Xoco is a neighborhood of Mexico City in Benito Juárez borough. Xoco was originally a village dating to before the Spanish conquest. Now it is an important commercial hot spot that lies just across the northern edge of Coyoacán.

Coyoacán

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This relatively large area in the southwest of Mexico City has always been a counterculture hotbed. This is where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived, a few blocks away from Leon Trotsky, and the tranquil residential area, with parks, squares, and cobblestone streets, is now a favourite spot for the bohemia set.

Portales metro station

Categories: metro station and station located on surface
Location: Benito Juárez Borough, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude

19.36543° or 19° 21′ 56″ north

Longitude

-99.14941° or 99° 8′ 58″ west

Elevation

2,244 metres (7,362 feet)

Open location code

76F29V82+56

GeoNames ID

3521266

Wikidata ID

Q3356960

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to Urdu—“Portales metro station” goes by many names.

French: “Portales”
Indonesian: “Metro Portales”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Portales metrostasjon”
Norwegian: “Portales metrostasjon”
Portuguese: “Estação Portales”
Portuguese: “Portales”
Spanish: “Estación Portales”
Spanish: “Metro Portales”
Spanish: “Portales”
Urdu: “پورٹلز میٹرو اسٹیشن”
“Metro Portales”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Estación Ermita and Estación Portales.

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