Apatlaco station
Metro · 8 Line 8
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The station icon shows the pictogram of an Aztec house or temple with boiling, steaming water inside it.
Apatlaco is a Nahuatl word meaning place of medicinal baths.
In 1785 there was a secondary canal that served as a route of communication in the Iztacalco area; the Paseo de La Viga was laid out at that time and depended greatly on it, and the canal was known as the acalote of small tezontle. Along that waterway, where it crosses the Churubusco river, stands today Mexico City's Central de Abastos wholesale market.
It is also the name of a river in the state of Morelos; the Apatlaco rises in the springs of Chapultepec, Morelos, and takes in the waters of the ravines of central and western Cuernavaca, notably the tunnel and the tributaries of del Pollo, Pilcalla, Amanalco, Limón, Tlazala and Los Sabinos. The Apatlaco is swollen by the Cuentepec river and by the Salados, Fría, Salto de Agua, Colotepec and Poza Honda streams. Today the state is trying to recover it because of the severe pollution the river suffers.