Metro Chabacano

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Metro Chabacano is a station on Lines 2, 8 and 9 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, south of the city centre, on Calzada de Tlalpan.

Chabacano means apricot in Mexican Spanish. When Mexico City was expanding south towards Río de la la Piedad (now tubed under the Viaduct) city planners decided to call an avenue after the fruit that grew prodigiously next to the shore of the river. The same name was later on applied to the metro station that was built under the bridge made by Chabacano Avenue when it crosses above Calzada de Tlalpan.

Metro Chabacano was the first station on the Mexico City Metro to make use of a third, central platform for descending while the other two on the sides are used for ascending. This system was first used in the Barcelona Metro.

The station has several cultural displays and a small public library. There is a couple of mosaic murals on the side of the station belonging to Line 9.

Scenes for the 1990 motion picture Total Recall were filmed in the corridors of Metro Chabacano; a fake blood spot still remains in a roof.

See also: List of Mexico City metro stations

Preceding station	Mexico City Metro			Following station
San Antonio Abad	Línea 2			Viaducto
Obrera	Línea 8			La Viga
Lázaro Cárdenas	Línea 9			Jamaica