Zaragoza metro station^{[lower-alpha 1]} is a station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is an underground station with two side platforms served by Line 1 (the Pink Line) between Gómez Farías and Pantitlán stations. It serves the colonias (neighborhoods) of 4 Árboles and Puebla. It lies below the Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza from which it receives its name, which in turn is named after Ignacio Zaragoza, the Secretary of War and Navy during the Battle of Puebla (internationally known as Cinco de Mayo). The station's pictogram features a silhouette of the nearby equestrian statue that honors him.

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Zaragoza
STC rapid transit
Station sign, 2012
General information
Location	Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City Mexico
Coordinates	19.412344°N 99.08241°W / 19.412344; -99.08241
Owned by	Government of Mexico City
Operated by	Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Line(s)	(Observatorio – Pantitlán)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Zaragoza Routes: 162B, 163, 163A, 163B, 164, 166, 167
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	In service
History
Opened	4 September 1969
Key dates
11 July 2022 (2022-07-11)	Temporarily closed
29 October 2023 (2023-10-29)	Reopened
Passengers
2023	1,098,718[1]  81.75%
Rank	176/195[1]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station Gómez Farías toward Observatorio Line 1 Pantitlán Terminus
Route map Legend Observatorio yard Observatorio Tacubaya Juanacatlán Chapultepec Sevilla Insurgentes Cuauhtémoc Balderas Salto del Agua Isabel la Católica Pino Suárez Merced Candelaria San Lázaro Moctezuma Balbuena Boulevard Puerto Aéreo Gómez Farías Zaragoza Zaragoza workshops Pantitlán This diagram: view talk edit
Location
Zaragoza Location within Mexico City
Area map and exits

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Zaragoza station opened on 4 September 1969 with service westward toward Chapultepec station; service eastward toward Pantitlán started on 22 August 1984. The facilities are accessible to people with disabilities as there are elevators, tactile pavings, access ramps, and braille signage plates; inside there is a cultural display, an Internet café, and a health module. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 46,475 passengers, making it the 18th busiest station in the network and the 6th busiest of the line. From July 2022 to October 2023, the station was closed due to modernization works on the tunnel and the line's technical equipment.

Zaragoza is a metro station located along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City.^[2] The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 4 Árboles and Puebla. Within the system, the station lies between Gómez Farías and Pantitlán stations.^[2] The area is serviced by a Centro de transferencia modal (CETRAM), a type of transport hub^[3] and by Routes 162B, 163, 163A, 163B, 164, 166, and 167 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network.^[4]

Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro, and Cometro, the last one a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.^[5] Its first section opened on 4 September 1969, operating from Zaragoza towards Chapultepec station.^[6] Zaragoza is an underground station;^[7] the Zaragoza–Gómez Farías tunnel is 762 meters (2,500 ft) long, while the Zaragoza–Pantitlán section measures 1,320 meters (4,330 ft).^[8] When it was opened, Zaragoza station served as the terminal of Line 1, thus the workshops are found after the station.^[9][10] On 22 August 1984, Pantitlán station was opened to connect Lines 1 and 5.^[11] The location of the workshop indirectly benefited the operations on the line as it allows the trains to depart to either station every 90 seconds.^[5]

The station was named after Ignacio Zaragoza, who was the Secretary of War and Navy during the Battle of Puebla, internationally celebrated as Cinco de Mayo.^[2] The station's pictogram features a silhouette of the equestrian statue of Zaragoza located in the zone.^[7] It has a disabled-accessible service as there are elevators, access ramps, tactile pavings and braille signage plates, a cultural display, an Internet café, and a health module.^[2] The station was closed on 11 July 2022 for modernization work on the tunnel and technical equipment of the line.^[12][13] Authorities reopened it fifteen months later, on 29 October 2023.^[14]

According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, and before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 46,400 and 61,300 daily entrances between 2013 and 2019; the station had a ridership of 15,572,745 passengers in 2019,^[16] which was a decrease of 1,390,692 passengers compared to 2018.^[17] Also in 2019, Zaragoza metro station was the 18th busiest station of the system's 195 stations, and it was the line's 6th busiest.^[16]

• Line 1 exit to the Zaragoza workshops.
• The equestrian statue of Zaragoza near the station served as the inspiration for the station's pictogram.