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Vallejo metro station

metro station in Mexico City

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6824762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vallejo (Spanish: Estación Vallejo) is a station along Line 6 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia Vallejo neighborhood of the Azcapotzalco borough of northwestern Mexico City.

Its logo represents a silhouette of a factory. The station opened on 21 December 1983.

Editorial summary

“Vallejo metro station” enters the record as metro station in Mexico City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vallejo, metro and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vallejo, metro and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Vallejo metro station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vallejo, metro and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6824762. Authority coordinates are 19.490, -99.156. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Vallejo metro station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vallejo metro station primary sources, Vallejo metro station archive and Vallejo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Vallejo metro station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Vallejo 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.