La Patera station

Neighbouring stations

• 3Line 3Júpiter ← La Patera → Poniente 146

The story behind the icon

The station icon represents the main façade of the former hacienda La Patera. The station takes its name from being located in the Unidad Vallejo La Patera neighbourhood and from its closeness to the main house of the former hacienda.

A stronghold of the sixteenth century which at different times of year was covered by flocks of wild ducks that bred in the area because of the flooding and rising of the Tlalnepantla and Los Remedios rivers. That is where its name comes from. This hacienda was the setting of a historic event: Don Juan O'Donojú, last viceroy of New Spain, having settled in the convent of the Carmelites in San Joaquín, had Iturbide accompany him as far as the hacienda owned by Doña María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco, the celebrated "Güera Rodríguez", and headquarters of the Army of the Three Guarantees. There, on 15 September 1821, the Treaties of Córdoba were ratified, offering the throne of Mexico to Ferdinand VII or to some member of the Royal House, failing which a Provisional Junta would be named whose president would be Iturbide himself. Fortunately the Treaties confirmed Mexico as an independent nation.

By wills of 1819 and 1850, Doña María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco left as executor and holder of her estate her husband, the lawyer Manuel de Elizalde, and as universal heirs her children; the lawyer Elizalde sold the haciendas of La Escalera and La Patera to the former president of Guatemala Mariano Gálvez on 27 November 1860. The last owner of both estates, Mrs Dolores Barrón de Forbes y Compañía, kept them until the beginning of the present century, after which they were parcelled out to build blocks of flats, the main house of the La Patera hacienda passing into the service of the National Chamber of Commerce on 8 February 1979.