Colonia Narvarte
Colonia Narvarte is the commonly used name for an area in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City.
Geography
The area commonly known as Narvarte or Colonia Narvarte actually contains five officially recognized neighborhoods:
- Colonia Piedad Narvarte
- Colonia Atenor Salas
- Colonia Narvarte Poniente
- Colonia Narvarte Oriente
- Colonia Vértiz Narvarte
Narvarte is bordered on the west by Colonia del Valle, the north by Viaducto Miguel Alemán freeway, across which are Colonia Roma Sur, Colonia Buenos Aires and Colonia Doctores.[1]
History
The old village of La Piedad was located in Colonia Piedad Narvarte, but no traces remain. The area was developed starting in the 1940s,[2] and Japanese, German and Lebanese immigrants moved here.
Points of interest
The large Parque Delta shopping center is located in Colonia Piedad Narvarte. The headquarters of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation with its famous murals is also located in the area.
Transportation
The area is served by metro stations Metro Eugenia, Metro Etiopia and Metro División del Norte and by Mexico City Metrobús lines 2 and 3.
References
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- Ciudad de los Deportes
- Del Valle
- Extremadura Insurgentes
- Insurgentes Mixcoac
- Insurgentes San Borja
- Mixcoac
- Nápoles
- Narvarte
- Noche Buena
- San José Insurgentes
- San Pedro de los Pinos
- San Juan
- Xoco
- Colegio Suizo de México
- Colegio la Florida
- Colegio Simón Bolívar (USB)
- Colegio La Salle Simón Bolívar
- New Continent School Campus Ciudad de México
- Colegio Williams Campus Mixcoac
- Escuela Mexicana del Valle / Americana
- Escuela Sierra Nevada Centro Educativo Nemi
- Tomás Alva Edison School
- Instituto Simón Bolívar
- Panamerican University
- Simón Bolívar University
stations
- Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes
- Mítikah
- Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes
- Parque Hundido
- Plaza México
- Plaza Universidad
- Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros
- Torre AXA México (formerly Mexicana de Aviación Tower)
- World Trade Center Mexico City
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