Cuauhtémoc metro station (Mexico City)

Cuauhtémoc is a metro station on the Mexico City Metro Line 1.<ref name="metro">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located at the northern extreme of Avenida Cuauhtémoc, in the Cuauhtémoc borough, in the center of Mexico City.<ref name="metro"/> From November 2023 to April 2025, the station remained closed for modernization work on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Name and pictogram

The station logo depicts the head of an eagle.<ref name="metro"/> The station, avenue, and borough were all named after the Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc, whose name means "descending eagle" in Nahuatl.<ref name="metro"/> The station receives its name due to being located at the intersection of Avenida Chapultepec and Avenida Cuauhtémoc, in the limits of the Juárez, Roma Norte, Centro and Doctores neighborhoods.

General information

This metro station is located near a number of landmarks, such as the up-market Roma and Juárez neighborhoods and the elegant tree-lined boulevard that is Paseo de la Reforma.<ref name="metro"/> Also nearby are two museums, the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum<ref name="ripleys">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Mexico City Wax Museum.<ref name="cera">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After renovation works that began in 2022, the station was reopened on April 23, 2025.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2024	0	0	189/195	Template:Change	<ref name=passnrank22-present/>
2023	2,563,966	7,024	141/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	4,194,986	11,493	102/195	Template:Change	<ref name=passnrank22-present/>
2021	4,054,718	11,108	74/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	4,394,193	12,005	80/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019	8,311,511	22,771	67/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018	8,235,598	22,563	73/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	7,812,188	21,403	76/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	8,512,525	23,258	71/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015	8,350,845	22,879	71/195	Template:Change	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Gallery

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  Entry sign to the station

External links

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