Portal Eldorado (TransMilenio)
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Fontibón and Engativá
Colombia
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| Location | Av.Calle 26 with Av.Carrera 86 and Transversal 93 Fontibón and Engativá Colombia | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 June 2012 | ||||||||||
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The Portal Eldorado, inaugurated in 2012, is one of the terminal stations of TransMilenio, the bus rapid transit system of Bogotá, Colombia.
The Portal Eldorado is located in the west of the city, on the Avenue El Dorado between the Avenue Ciudad de Cali and the transverse 93. It has accesses by pedestrian bridges located on These two ways.
It caters directly to the neighborhoods Santa Cecilia, Los Álamos and its surroundings. Nearby are the El Dorado International Airport, the Aloft Bogota Airport hotel, the Movich Buró 26 hotel, the Habiltel hotel, the main headquarters of Carvajal SA, the GlaxoSmithKline headquarters in Colombia, the Hipercentro warehouse Corona Dorado and Connecta business center, headquarters of several multinationals and visa offices for the embassies of Australia and the United States.
Etymology
The Portal receives its name being the head station of the line Calle 26, and being located on the road axis of the same name. The Eldorado Avenue was baptized of this form since for a long time it was believed that the legend of Eldorado had its source in the muiscas rites of the lagoon of Guatavita, located about 40 kilometers from the city.