Moctezuma metro station

Moctezuma is a station on Line 1 the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia Moctezuma and Colonia Balbuena neighborhoods of the Venustiano Carranza borough, to the northeast of the centre of Mexico City.

Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Metro station
Description: metro station in Mexico City
Also known as: “Estacion Moctezuma”, “Moctezuma”, “Moctezuma station”, and “Montezuma”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Oxxo and Little Caesars.

Oxxo

Convenience store

Photo: Aurelio de Sandoval, CC0.

Oxxo is a Mexican chain of convenience stores and gas stations. With over 21,000 stores across the Americas and parts of Europe, it is the largest chain of convenience stores in Latin America. Oxxo is situated 570 metres southeast of Moctezuma metro station.

Little Caesars

Restaurant

Little Caesar Enterprises Inc. is an American multinational chain of pizza restaurants founded in 1959. Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain by total sales in the United States behind Domino's and Pizza Hut. Little Caesars is situated 1 km southeast of Moctezuma metro station.

San Lázaro metro station

Metro station

Photo: GAED, Public domain.

San Lázaro is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City. Lines 1 and B serve the station. The station was opened on 5 September 1969. San Lázaro metro station is situated 600 metres northwest of Moctezuma metro station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centro and Tlatelolco.

Centro

Photo: Uwebart, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The old city center or Centro Histórico of Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.

Tlatelolco

Quarter

Photo: Diego Rivera, Public domain.

Tlatelolco was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the Valley of Mexico. Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century. Tlatelolco is situated 4 km northwest of Moctezuma metro station.