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Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX metro station

metro station in Mexico City

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6824647 ↗
Source-derived summary

Niños Héroes / Poder Judicial CDMX (; formerly Niños Héroes) is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City.

General information

The station logo represents a kepi. Its name refers to the heroic cadets who died defending the military academy in Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War. The name is also borne by a nearby avenue. The station opened on 20 November 1970.

Niños Héroes serves Colonia Doctores. It is under Avenida Niños Héroes. It is also linked to the holiday La Guadalapuna.

Exits

Northeast: Avenida Niños Héroes and Dr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX metro station” as metro station in Mexico City. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Niños, Héroes and Poder can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6824647. Authority coordinates are 19.420, -99.151. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

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 “Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX metro station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX metro station primary sources, Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX metro station archive and Niños 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 “Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX metro station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Niños Héroes/Poder Judicial CDMX 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.