Instituto del Petróleo metro station
metro station in Mexico City
Instituto del Petróleo metro station is a transfer station on the Mexico City Metro in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City. Instituto del Petróleo is a combined underground and at-grade station divided into two lines. It serves Lines 5 (Yellow Line) and 6 (Red Line), each with two side platforms. Instituto del Petróleo metro station is located between Politécnico and Autobuses del Norte stations on Line 5, and between Vallejo and Lindavista stations on Line 6. The stop serves the Colonias (neighborhoods) of Valle del Tepeyac, San Bartolo Atepehuacan, and Nueva Industrial. The Line 5 building is situated along Eje Central Avenue.
Instituto del Petróleo metro station opened on 30 August 1982 as part of the extending service from La Raza to Politécnico station, with eastbound service to Pantitlán. Service on Line 6 began on 21 December 1983 as the temporary eastern terminal of the line.
The pictogram representing Instituto del Petróleo metro station depicts an oil derrick, and the station's name references the nearby Mexican Petroleum Institute headquarters. Inside the station, there is a collection of sculptures titled Petróleo, made of oil drums and created by Mexican artist Ernesto Paulsen Camba.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Instituto del Petróleo metro station” as metro station in Mexico City. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as metro station in Mexico City. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6824591. Authority coordinates are 19.490, -99.145. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 1983.
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This entry incorporates text from “Instituto del Petróleo metro station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.