Ciudad del Niño metro station
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| Location | Gran Avenida José Miguel Carrera / Sexta Avenida Street | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°30′34.32″S 70°39′23.90″W / 33.5095333°S 70.6566389°W | ||||||||||
| System | Santiago rapid transit | ||||||||||
| Line | Line 2 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Transantiago buses | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | December 21, 1978[1] | ||||||||||
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Ciudad del Niño is an underground metro station on the Line 2 of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. It was named after the former Ciudad del Niño Presidente Juan Antonio Ríos. The station was opened on 21 December 1978 as part of the extension of the line from Franklin to Lo Ovalle.[2]
On 10 December 1985, a unit of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front assaulted the ticket offices and detonated two kilograms of explosives behind a train in the station.[3][4]
The station remained closed between 19 October and 11 November 2019 due to the mass fare evasion events that affected it during the protests triggered by the metro fare increase.[5]
References
- ^ "Historia" [History]. Metro de Santiago (in Spanish). Metro S.A. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
- ^ Schwandl, Robert. "Santiago". urbanrail.
- ^ "Record of attacks reveals at least 10 previous cases". La Tercera (in Spanish). 16 July 2014. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
- ^ Peña, Cristóbal. "Los fusileros" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2025.
- ^ "Metro announces reopening of four Line 2 stations starting this Monday". 24Horas.cl (in Spanish). 10 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2025.