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Plaza de Puente Alto Metro Station

General Information

Completion: 30 November 2005
Status: in use

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Coordinates: 33° 36' 54.36" S    70° 34' 32.88" W
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Plaza de Puente Alto is an underground metro station and the southern terminal station of Line 4 of the Santiago Metro network, in Santiago, Chile. The station is located under the square of the same name, Plaza de Puente Alto, parallel to Concha y Toro Avenue at the junction with Manuel Rodríguez avenue in the commune of Puente Alto. The station was opened to the public on November 30, 2005.

The station's surroundings are dominated by municipal buildings like the civil registry office of Puente Alto, the Provincia Cordillera (Cordillera Province) building, and the old municipality building. There is a very active community of independent retail stores along with department stores that opened after the arrival of the metro station. In Plaza de Puente Alto square there is a statue of Manuel Rodríguez, a Chilean independentist hero. The station and square are a popular pick-up and connection point for taxis, share taxis, buses that go to different parts of south Santiago and throughout Cordillera Province, of which Puente Alto is the capital. Puente Alto is one of the most densely populated communes in the country, which is one of the reasons for the construction of the metro line and Plaza de Puente Alto metro station. In recent years, Puente Alto has had one of the fastest growing real estate sectors of all the Chilean communes, seeing 20% of total Santiago real estate sales. This rise is mainly due to the construction of houses for middle-class sectors, partly influenced by the extension of the metro network into this part of the city.

Etymology

The station’s name comes from the Puente Alto center square which it is located beneath.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Plaza de Puente Alto metro station" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20053304
  • Published on:
    19/02/2010
  • Last updated on:
    05/02/2022
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