Barrancas metro station
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Barrancas   | |||||||||||
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| Santiago rapid transit | |||||||||||
 Platform, Barrancas metro station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Teniente Cruz Avenue / General Bonilla Avenue | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°27′10.48″S 70°44′21.88″W / 33.4529111°S 70.7394111°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) |  Line 5 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Transantiago buses | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | February 3, 2011[1] | ||||||||||
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Barrancas is an underground metro station on Line 5 of the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It is located underneath the junction of Teniente Cruz Avenue and General Bonilla Avenue on the border of the communes of Pudahuel and Lo Prado, between Laguna Sur station (1140 meters away) and Pudahuel station (990 meters away). It also lies parallel to the Route 68 highway which connects Santiago with Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, and the highway crosses over the underground metro line.[2] The station has disabled access.[3]
The station was opened on 3 February 2011 as part of the extension of the line from Pudahuel to Plaza de Maipú.[4][5]
The station was named after the old name of this part of the city, Barrancas, which covered the nowadays communes of Pudahuel, Lo Prado, Cerro Navia and Quinta Normal during the 1960s. While the Line 5 extension was being built, Barrancas was known as “General Bonilla” station due to its location on General Bonilla Avenue, itself named after Chilean general Óscar Bonilla.
