Barrancas metro station

Barrancas
Santiago Metro station
Platform, Barrancas metro station
Location	Teniente Cruz Avenue / General Bonilla Avenue
Coordinates	33°27′10.48″S 70°44′21.88″W / 33.4529111°S 70.7394111°W / -33.4529111; -70.7394111Coordinates: 33°27′10.48″S 70°44′21.88″W / 33.4529111°S 70.7394111°W / -33.4529111; -70.7394111
Line(s)	Line 5
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Transantiago buses
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	February 3, 2011
Services
Preceding station   Santiago Metro   Following station Laguna Sur toward Plaza de Maipú Line 5 Pudahuel toward Vicente Valdés

Barrancas is an underground metro station on Line 5 of the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It is located underneath the junction of and 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. The station has disabled access.

Barrancas station and the line extension it forms part of was inaugurated on February 3, 2011.

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.

In 2005, the Chilean president Ricardo Lagos announced the extension of Metro Line 5 as far as Maipú. After years of cancelled plans to extend the Metro network to Maipú, the use of Line 5 was unexpected because the Line 1 Metro stations Pajaritos station or Las Rejas station had historically received the bulk of commuters travelling up from Maipú.