The station's pictogram depicts the sculpture on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez, found near the station, which in turn depicts the head of Benito Juárez, the 26th president of Mexico, who was born in the town of San Pablo Guelatao, Guelatao Municipality, Oaxaca.

Guelatao is a metro station along Calzada Ignacio Zaragoza, in eastern Mexico City.

The station serves the colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Ejército de Oriente and Voceadores in Iztapalapa.

[4] The station serves the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Zaragoza of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

[10] According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, commuters have averaged per year between 10,500 and 24,300 daily entrances in the last decade, In 2019, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, the station's ridership totaled 7,898,506 passengers,[11] which was an increase of 1,046,065 passengers compared to 2018.