Aragón metro station is a Mexico City Metro station within the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, in Mexico City. It is an at-grade station with one island platform, serving Line 5 (Yellow Line), between Eduardo Molina and Oceanía stations. Aragón metro station was inaugurated on 19 December 1981, providing northwestward service toward Consulado and eastward service toward Pantitlán.
The station services the of Casas Alemán and Simón Bolívar, along Avenida Río Consulado. metro station is named after the public park and zoo. The pictogram for the station features a squirrel. In 2019, the station had an average daily ridership of 7,547 passengers, ranking it the 172nd busiest station in the network and the eighth busiest of the line.
Location and layout
is an at-grade metro station on Line 5 along , at the segment. The station is found in the limits of the boroughs of and , in northeastern Mexico City. The station serves the ("neighborhoods") of , , and , . It has two exits leading to : the northern exit serves at the corner of , while the southern exit serves , at the corner of .
Within the system, the station lies between and . Route of the city's public bus system and Route 200 of the network service the area.
History and construction Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by , a subsidiary of . Its first section, which includes metro station, opened on 19 December 1981, running from to stations.
The section between and mesures , while the opposite section toward is long. The latter section has reported subsidence issues.
Name and pictogram The pictogram for metro station depicts the silhouette of a squirrel, symbolizing its proximity to the public park and zoo, as it was the closest station to the park when it opened. The Bosque de Aragón metro station later replaced this function.
Incidents Aragón metro station was temporarily closed for repairs after the 2015 Oceanía metro station train crash. From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the pandemic in Mexico.
Ridership
According to official data, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station recorded between 7,100 and 7,600 average daily entries from 2016 to 2019. In 2025, it recorded 2,242,171 passenger entries, ranking 172nd among the system's 195 stations.
Annual passenger ridership Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref. 2025 2,242,171 6,142 172/195 2024 2,257,969 6,169 163/195 2023 2,271,668 6,223 152/195 2022 2,134,549 5,848 150/195 2021 1,605,655 4,399 153/195 2020 1,433,746 3,917 174/195 2019 2,754,754 7,547 172/195 2018 2,733,501 7,489 171/195 2017 2,624,161 7,189 171/195 2016 2,619,656 7,157 172/195
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