Miguel Ángel de Quevedo station

Neighbouring stations

• 3Line 3Viveros / Derechos Humanos ← Miguel Ángel de Quevedo → Copilco

The story behind the icon

The station image is a tree.

Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, called the Apostle of the Tree, was a Mexican engineer (1859-1946) who devoted much of his life to the care and study of plant life.

He was born in Guadalajara in 1862 and later moved to Mexico City, where he qualified as an engineer.

He headed the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and founded the Mexican Forestry Society. He bought the Panzacola ranch and filled it with trees, calling it the Arboretum ranch; part of that land he gave over to nurseries, as well as to the offices of the Maize Commission and other forestry bodies of the Ministry of Agriculture.

He also began harnessing electric power in the works at Río Blanco in Orizaba, and later, in Veracruz, set about planting trees on the dunes, thereby solving the problem of the sandstorms stirred up by the northerly winds that batter the region.

In 1935 he was appointed head of the Forestry, Hunting and Fishing Department of the Ministry of Agriculture. He wrote several books and lectured on his forestry speciality.