Tlatelolco metro station

Tlatelolco is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Tlatelolco neighbourhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, to the north of the downtown area. It serves the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco mega apartment complex, famous for its Plaza de las Tres Culturas square (with buildings from the pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras) and infamous for the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre of demonstrating students.

The station logo depicts the tallest building in the nearby Nonoalco-Tlatelolco residential estate, the triangular Torre Insignia, which was formerly a Banobras building. The tower houses a 47-bell carillon – a gift to the Mexican people from the citizens of Belgium. Metro Tlatelolco is directly connected with the main square of the vast, 1960s residential estate.

The station opened on 20 November 1970 with service southward towards Hospital General. Northward service towards Indios Verdes started nearly 8 years later on 25 August 1978.

Ridership

Annual passenger ridership
Year	Ridership	Average daily	Rank	% change	Ref.
2023	5,505,564	15,083	83/195	Template:Change
2022	5,135,910	14,070	86/195	Template:Change
2021	3,424,240	9,381	90/195	Template:Change
2020	4,418,457	12,072	79/195	Template:Change
2019	7,562,593	20,719	84/195	Template:Change
2018	7,323,374	20,064	90/195	Template:Change
2017	7,408,684	20,297	86/195	Template:Change
2016	7,857,136	21,467	83/195	Template:Change
2015	8,057,191	22,074	77/195	Template:Change
2014	7,815,836	21,413	83/195	Template:Change