Metro Salto del Agua

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Salto del Agua Mexico City Metro

Balderas Line 1 Isabel la Católica

San Juan de Letrán Line 8 Doctores

Metro Salto del Agua is a metro (subway) station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough in the centre of Mexico City.

Its logo represents the Salto del Agua fountain, placed nearby in 1779 by Viceroy Don Antonio de Bucareli y Ursúa. This fountain is one of the remains of a large acueduct that existed in the colonial era and ran from Chapultepec Park to Salto del Agua. Today are some ruins about the acueduct in Avenida Chapultepec near Metro Sevilla The fountain has a sculpture of three children riding dolphins.

Salto del Agua is a transfer station and contains a cultural display. It also has two kinds of architecture, one from Line 1 of the Metro, and the other, more modern style, of Line 8. Line 8 exits connect with Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas (Mexico City's central avenue), which is filled in this zone with bookstores, boutiques, electronics shops, and street traders, locally known as vendedores ambulantes or "ambulantaje".

Metro Salto del Agua also transfers to trolleybus line "A", which runs the full length of Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas and more, from Metro Autobuses del Norte and Metro Tasqueña – the city's main north and south intercity bus stations.