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Pictogram of Eugenia metro station. It features the silhouette of a flying stork. Eugenia
Mexico City Metro
An almost empty subway platform.
Station platforms, 2025
General information
LocationCuauhtémoc Avenue and Eugenia Avenue
Benito JuĂĄrez, Mexico City
Mexico
Coordinates19°23â€Č10″N 99°9â€Č26″Wï»ż / ï»ż19.38611°N 99.15722°Wï»ż / 19.38611; -99.15722
SystemMexico City Metro
OwnerGovernment of Mexico City
OperatorSistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsMexico City MetrobĂșs Line 3 Eugenia
Construction
Structure type
Underground
Other information
StatusIn service
History
Opened25 August 1980; 46 years ago (1980-08-25)
Passengers
20254,182,163[1][a] Decrease 3.69%
Rank126/195[1][a]
Services
Preceding station Mexico City Metro Following station
EtiopĂ­a/Plaza de la Transparencia
toward Indios Verdes
 Line 3 DivisiĂłn del Norte
toward Universidad
Location
Eugenia is located in Mexico City
Eugenia
Pictogram of Eugenia metro station. It features the silhouette of a flying stork. Eugenia
Location within Mexico City
Map
Area map

Eugenia metro station[b] is a station of the Mexico City Metro in the city's borough of Benito Juårez. It is an underground railway stop with two side platforms serving Line 3 (Olive Line), between Etiopía/Plaza de la Transparencia and División del Norte. It was opened on 25 August 1980, providing service north toward Indios Verdes and south toward Zapata.

Eugenia metro station services the colonias (neighborhoods) of Vertiz Narvarte and Del Valle, in the intersection of Avenida Cuauhtémoc and Avenida Eugenia. The station's name references the avenue, which in turn honors philanthropist Eugenia Ojeda de Castelló. Its pictogram depicts the silhouette of a stork, a bird associated with fertility, reflecting the meaning of the name Eugenia as "well-born".

Outside, there is the eponymous MetrobĂșs station serving Line 3. In 2025, Eugenia metro station had an average daily ridership of 11,457 passenger entries, ranking it the 126th busiest stop in the network.

Location and layout

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A building entrance
One of the station's entrances (pictured) is situated next to the Mexico City Secretariat of Economic Development building.

Eugenia is an underground metro station on Line 3 below Avenida Cuauhtémoc, in the Colonias ("neighborhoods") of Vertiz Narvarte and Del Valle, in the Benito Juårez borough, south-central Mexico City. The stop has two exits leading onto Avenida Cuauhtémoc: the eastern exit in Colonia Vertiz Narvarte and the western one in Colonia del Valle.[2] Land use in the area is predominantly residential, with local services.[3]

The station lies below the city's Secretariat of Economic Development building.[4] Eugenia is located between EtiopĂ­a/Plaza de la Transparencia and DivisiĂłn del Norte stations on the line.[2] The area is serviced by the MetrobĂșs bus rapid transit system (Line 3) at the eponymous Eugenia stop.[5]

History and construction

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Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Ingeniería de Sistemas de Transportes Metropolitano, Electrometro, and Cometro, the latter being a subsidiary of Empresas ICA.[6] The section including Eugenia station formed part of a southward extension from Centro Médico to Zapata, opened on 25 August 1980, with service running north to Indios Verdes and south to Zapata.[7] The section between Eugenia and Etiopía/Plaza de la Transparencia station measures 950 meters (3,120 ft), while the opposite tunnel toward División del Norte station is 715 meters (2,346 ft) long.[8]

The station formerly connected to Line O of the trolleybus system, which ran from San Antonio metro station to the Central de Abastos wholesale market.[9]

Name and pictogram

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Eugenia metro station is named after the nearby Avenida Eugenia, also known as Eje 5 Sur. JosĂ© C. CastellĂł and his family, including his wife Eugenia Ojeda de CastellĂł, owned a quinta in the area. Ojeda was a philanthropist, and her husband requested that the city government name the street in her honor when the area's nomenclature system was established around 1920 and 1924. Although the Mexico City Metro has other stations named after women – including Isabel la CatĂłlica, Santa Anita, or Santa Marta – Eugenia is the only station in the system named after a Mexican woman.[10] It is also the only station whose name is associated with a local person rather than a political or historical figure.[11]

Eugenia means well-born, and the station's pictogram features a stork, a bird traditionally associated with fertility.[12][10] The pictogram was designed by Lance Wyman, and it is one of the few in the system based on a European (specifically Ancient Greek) meaning.[13] As of 2024, the MetrobĂșs station is also one of the few stations named after Latin American women – the others being Josefa Ortiz de DomĂ­nguez, Luz Saviñón [es], and Manuela SĂĄenz.[14]

Incidents

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On 8 June 2023, part of the ceiling in the station's corridors collapsed following an afternoon of rain.[15] According to an El Sol de México investigation in June 2024, Eugenia metro station is among the stations with the most sheets and wires used to cover leaks on Line 3, with four in total. At a northbound access, a leak reported in February of that year was patched, but was reported as detached the next month.[16]

Ridership

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Graphic showing daily ridership
Daily ridership for Eugenia station in 2024

According to official data, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station recorded between 18,200 and 18,400 average daily entries from 2016 to 2019. In 2025, it recorded 4,182,163 passenger entries, ranking 126th among the system's 195 stations.[1]

Annual passenger ridership[a]
Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref.
20254,182,16311,457126/195−3.69%[1]
20244,342,49811,864115/195+4.24%[1]
20234,165,74211,412109/195+6.38%[1]
20223,915,74810,728111/195+38.69%[1]
20212,823,4767,735115/195−20.91%[17]
20203,569,9349,753104/195−46.72%[18]
20196,700,57918,35797/195+0.09%[19]
20186,694,79418,34195/195+0.53%[20]
20176,659,66518,24596/195−0.92%[21]
20166,721,70018,36599/195+0.78%[22]

Notes

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  1. 1 2 3 The system's website counts only passenger entries into stations and does not include passengers passing through, transferring between lines, or exiting the station. The data here is limited to the most recent ten years to avoid excessive listings; earlier figures can be found in this page's history or on the Mexico City Metro website. To calculate the average daily ridership, the annual total is divided by 365 days (366 in leap years), with decimals omitted from the result. Each station per line is ranked individually, as the system counts transfer stations separately. The percentage change is calculated automatically using the data from the current year and the previous year.
  2. ↑ Estación del Metro Eugenia. Spanish pronunciation: [euˈxenja] ⓘ.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Afluencia de estación por línea (2022–presente)" [Station traffic by line (2022–present)] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2025. Archived from the original on 8 February 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Eugenia" (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 8 July 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
  3. ↑ DomĂ­nguez Prieto, Olivia (2010). Trovadores posmodernos: mĂșsicos en el Sistema de Transporte Colectivo metro [Postmodern troubadours: musicians in the Metro public transit system] (PDF) (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico. p. 83. ISBN 978-607-02-1451-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 April 2026. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Locatarios de mercados cierran el metro Eugenia en protesta porque autoridades no los recibieron" [Market vendors shut down Eugenia metro station in protest after authorities declined to meet with them]. Latinus (in Spanish). 10 February 2025. Archived from the original on 18 January 2026. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
  5. ↑ Sosa, IvĂĄn (3 February 2021). "Estrenan estaciĂłn Eugenia del MetrobĂșs" [Eugenia MetrobĂșs station opens]. Reforma (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "LĂ­nea 3, Ciudad de MĂ©xico" [Line 3, Mexico City] (in Spanish). iNGENET Infraestructura. 20 July 2009. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  7. ↑ Ingeniería [Engineering] (in Spanish). Vol. 52. National Autonomous University of Mexico. 1982. p. 130.
  8. ↑ "Longitud de estación a estación por línea" [Length from station to station by line] (in Spanish). Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  9. ↑ "LĂ­nea O, Eje 5 y 6 Sur" [Line O, Eje 5 and 6 Sur]. Servicio de Transportes ElĂ©ctricos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 February 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  10. 1 2 GonzĂĄlez, Valeria (4 March 2024). "Esta es la Ășnica estaciĂłn del Metro de la CDMX nombrada en honor a una mujer mexicana" [This is the only station in the Mexico City Metro named in honor of a Mexican woman]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  11. ↑ Franco, Abril (22 February 2026). "ÂżQuiĂ©n fue Eugenia y por quĂ© una estaciĂłn del Metro CDMX lleva su nombre?" [Who was Eugenia, and why is a Mexico City Metro station named after her?]. El GrĂĄfico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 February 2026. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
  12. ↑ Munguía Anaya, Francisco Javier (9 December 2022). "Metro de CdMx: La historia de amor que se esconde tras el nombre de la estación Eugenia" [Mexico City Metro: The love story behind the name of Eugenia station]. Milenio (in Spanish). Mexico City. Archived from the original on 21 August 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2026.
  13. ↑ Chaga, Brayan (11 September 2025). "Metro CDMX: ÂżquiĂ©n fue Eugenia y por quĂ© hay una garza en la estaciĂłn de la LĂ­nea 3?" [Mexico City Metro: Who was Eugenia, and why is there a heron [sic] at the Line 3 station?]. La CrĂłnica de Hoy (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 April 2026. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
  14. ↑ GonzĂĄlez, Valeria (8 March 2024). "Estas son las estaciones del MetrobĂșs que conmemoran a mujeres histĂłricas" [These are the MetrobĂșs stations that honor historic women]. Infobae (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
  15. ↑ BerĂĄn GonzĂĄlez, Blanca (8 June 2023). "Video: Usuarios del Metro reportan que cayĂł parte del techo en estaciĂłn Eugenia" [Video: Metro riders report that part of the ceiling collapsed at the Eugenia station]. ExcĂ©lsior (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
  16. ↑ Estrada, Dana (14 June 2026). "Le llueve por dentro a la mitad de la LĂ­nea 3" [It's raining inside halfway along Line 3]. El Sol de MĂ©xico (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 May 2025. Retrieved 23 April 2026.
  17. ↑ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2021" [Station traffic per line 2021] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  18. ↑ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2020" [Station traffic per line 2020] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  19. ↑ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2019" [Station traffic per line 2019] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2020. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  20. ↑ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2018" [Station traffic per line 2018] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  21. ↑ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2017" [Station traffic per line 2017] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2019. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  22. ↑ "Afluencia de estación por línea 2016" [Station traffic per line 2016] (in Spanish). Sistema Transporte Colectivo Metro. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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  • Wikimedia Commons logo Media related to EstaciĂłn Eugenia (Metro de MĂ©xico) at Wikimedia Commons
  • "Metro Eugenia". At the Official Guide to Mexico City.
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