Metro Mixiuhca

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Mixiuhca Mexico City Metro

Jamaica Line 9 Velódromo

Metro Mixiuhca is a metro station located in Mexico City, Mexico. The station's icon is a silhouette of a woman holding a newborn baby. In the Nahuatl languaje mixiuhca means "place of births". The origin of this name comes from one of the Aztecs' migration stories. When the Aztecs first came to the Valley of Mexico, they lived for a long time in placed called Tizapan. However, they were were violently expelled from here.

Legend states that they ran out to the surrounding swamps using their shields and spears as rafts for the women and children. They ran across three places: Mexizalzingo, Iztacalco and Temazcaltitlán, and precisely there, in that last place, one of the women gave birth to a child. And from then on, the name of that place became Mixiuhca.

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