Mixcoac station
Metro · 7 12 Line 7 and Line 12
Lines and neighbouring stations
- 7Line 7San Antonio Mixcoac Barranca del Muerto
- 12Line 12Terminus Mixcoac Insurgentes sur
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The story behind the icon
The station icon represents a serpent.
Mixcóatl comes from mixtli, meaning cloud, and cóatl, meaning serpent.
Mixcóatl is regarded as the stellar god of hunting and war. According to the chronicles, the town of Mixcoac existed long before the Spaniards arrived in Mexico. It is known that in its early days Mixcoac belonged to the lordship of Coyohuacan, when all that country was Tepanec territory (of Azcapotzalco) and long before the Aztecs reached Anáhuac. In one of his letters of report to Emperor Charles V, Hernán Cortés mentions a place called Mixquique.
By the beginning of the 20th century Mixcoac was one of the thirteen municipalities that made up Mexico City. It lay in the centre, bounded to the north by the old municipality of Mexico, to the south by that of Coyoacán, to the east by that of Iztapalapa, to the south-west by that of San Ángel and to the north by the municipality of Tacubaya.