Consulado metro station is a transfer station of the Mexico City Metro in Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is a combined elevated and at-grade station, along Lines 4 (the Aqua Line) and 5 (the Yellow Line). Consulado is located between Bondojito and Canal del Norte stations on Line 4, and between Valle Gómez and Eduardo Molina stations on Line 5. It serves the colonias of 7 de Noviembre, 20 de Noviembre, Felipe Ángeles, and Mártires de Río Blanco. The station is named after the Consulado River, which runs below Río Consulado Avenue, and its pictogram depicts a water duct, representing the ducted part of the river. Consulado station opened on 29 August 1981 with service northward toward Martín Carrera station and southward toward Candelaria station on Line 4. Southeast service on Line 5 toward Pantitlán metro station started on 19 December 1981. In 2019, the station had an overall average daily ridership of 9,337 passengers, making it one of the least-used stations in the network. Location Consulado is a metro transfer station in the limits of Gustavo A. Madero and Venustiano Carranza boroughs, in northeastern Mexico City. The station lies on Río Consulado Avenue and Congreso de la Unión Avenue, and serves colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of 7 de Noviembre and Mártires de Río Blanco, in Gustavo A. Madero, and of 20 de Noviembre and Felipe Ángeles, in Venustiano Carranza. Within the system, it lies between Bondojito and Canal del Norte metro stations on Line 4; on Line 5, between Valle Gómez and Eduardo Molina metro stations. The area is serviced by Line 5 of the Metrobús system at Río Consulado bus station, a few blocks away; by Routes 5-A, 20-A, and 20-B of the city's public bus system and by Routes 37 and 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network. Exits There are four exits: East: Congreso de la Unión Avenue and Oriente 87 Street, 20 de Noviembre (Line 4). West: Congreso de la Unión Avenue and Oriente 85 Street, Mártires de Río Blanco (Line 4). North: Río Consulado Avenue and Norte 64-A Street, 7 de Noviembre (Line 5). South: Río Consulado Avenue and Cuarzo Street, Felipe Ángeles (Line 5). History and construction Line 4 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA; Consulado Line 4 opened on 29 August 1981, on the first day of