Estación Balbuena

Estación Balbuena is a railway stop in Mexico City, Central Mexico and has an elevation of 2,238 metres. Estación Balbuena is situated nearby to the convenience store Oxxo, as well as near the restaurant Little Caesars.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Balbuena metro station and Little Caesars.

Balbuena metro station

Metro station

Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Balbuena metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in the city's borough of Venustiano Carranza. It is an underground stop with two side platforms serving Line 1 between Moctezuma and Boulevard Puerto Aéreo.

Little Caesars

Restaurant

Little Caesar Enterprises Inc. is an American multinational chain of pizza restaurants that was 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 600 metres southwest of Estación Balbuena.

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 470 metres west of Estación Balbuena.

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 5 km northwest of Estación Balbuena.