Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio

Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio is a fire station in Mexico City, Central Mexico which is located on Avenida Lázaro Cárdenas. Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio is situated nearby to the sports venue Centro Deportivo ‘Gumersindo Romero’, as well as near the pitch Cancha Deportiva.

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Type: Fire station
Description: fire station in Mexico City
Also known as: “Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio station” and “Estación de Bomberos Benito Juárez”
Address: Avenida Lázaro Cárdenas, Ciudad de México, 03300

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Parque de los Venados and División del Norte metro station.

Parque de los Venados

Park

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Parque de los Venados is a park, which is situated 730 metres west of Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio.

División del Norte metro station

Railway station

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División del Norte is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City. División del Norte metro station is situated 1¼ km northwest of Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio.

Portales metro station

Metro station

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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. Portales metro station is situated 1 km east of Comandante Enrique Padilla Lupercio.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Churubusco and Xoco.

Churubusco

Quarter

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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

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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.