Where is he nearest taxi stand?
How would you ask where you can catch the nearest taxi?
6 Answers
This is actually not a trivial question. The correct - procedure, I want to say, rather than answer - could vary significantly depending on where you are trying to catch a taxi.
"Taxi stands" are not a universal concept. There are places where you can walk your feet down to the bone before you find anything resembling a taxi stand. In many places (NY City comes to mind), often the easiest and quickest way to grab a taxi is by hailing one right on the street.
In other places this is considered an extremely risky and unsafe practice, liable to get you kidnapped by some criminal posing as a taxi driver.
There are places (Bogotá - Colombia, for example), where the only (safe) way to get a taxi is by calling a telephone number, where they give you a code that you must match against the car that comes to pick you up.
So depending on where you are, you may need to hail a car right on the street, call a number, or get to a licensed taxi stand. Find out what the recommended practice is before you go!
Follow Gekkosan's advice. If you are somewhere that has taxi stands:
Where is the taxi stand? = ¿Dónde está la parada de taxis?
I agree with Gekko and Kevin Follow Gekko's wise advice if you want to stay alive in some of these dangerous countries especially Venezuela.
You could also say ( but only if it is safe to hail taxis in this way)
¿Dónde está la parada de taxis más cerca, por favor?
= Where is the nearest/closest taxi rank, please?
or ...
Por favor ¿Cuál es la manera más seguro para pedir un taxi, por aquí?
= Which is the safest way to call a taxi around here, please?
Update; After reading Julian's post I thought that this way is the best way to ask for a taxi in Mexico although the first example I gave should be understand in Spain
"¿Donde se encuentra un taxi de sitio?"
Make sure you ask this question in a reputable place like a hotel.
I hope this helps 
Well first off I am recommending Gekkosan's answer.My recommendation is to go to the nearest business and ask them to call a taxi for you'' I have found this to be the best and safest alternative and I have never been turned away or kidnapped, Mexicans are kind to a fault until you put them behind the wheel of a car. The other option is to follow Kevin's answer ¿ donde estas los taxis? but you had better to be able to understand the answer to your question.
Gekkosan´s advice is very important to note. In Mexico City, the safe taxis are called "taxi de sitio." You either call by phone, or go to their stands if you are very, very close to them that you can see them, but with extreme caution at night.
"¿Donde se encuentra un taxi de sitio?"
You could try using the translator... 
