Colonia Portales Sur

Colonia Portales Sur is a neighborhood in , . Colonia Portales Sur is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eje Central metro station and Frida Kahlo Museum.

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 and . It was opened on 30 October 2012 as a part of the first stretch of Line 12 between Mixcoac and Tláhuac.

Museum
Photo: Nachtwächter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , 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.

Sports venue
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an indoor swimming pool Olympic facility located in , . It has a capacity of 4,300. It hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics for competitions of swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming part of modern pentathlon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Churubusco and Xoco.

Quarter
Photo: Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot, Public domain.
is a neighbourhood of . It is a part of the borough of . It is centred on the former Franciscan monastery at. The name "Churubusco" is the interpretation the invaders gave to the original Nahuatl name Huitzilopochco – meaning "place of Huitzilopochtli".

Quarter
is a neighborhood of Mexico City in Benito Juárez borough. 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 .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
This relatively large area in the southwest of 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.

Colonia Portales Sur

Latitude
19.36169° or 19° 21′ 42″ north
Longitude
-99.14891° or 99° 8′ 56″ west
Open location code
76F29V62+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9041879735
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
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