Portal de Las Américas (TransMilenio)

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Portal de Las Américas
Patio Bonito ◄ ►
Location	Avenida Ciudad de Cali with Avenida Ciudad de Villavicencio
Neighborhood	Kennedy
Opened	December of 2004

Portal de Las Américas is a terminus station of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, which opened in the year 2000.

Contents 1 Location 2 History 3 Station Services 3.1 Main Line Service 3.2 Feeder routes 3.3 Inter-city service 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Location

Portal de Las Américas is located in southwestern Bogotá, specifically on Avenida Ciudad de Cali with Avenida Ciudad de Villavicencio.

[edit] History

In December of 2004, this station was opened before work was even finished on the line running along the Avenida Ciudad de Cali. It was the fifth terminus of the system to be opened.

At first, only red buses of the size of the feeder buses were used at this station. They bore signs reading P.A. or PORTAL AMERICAS but did not have a formal route number. In March of 2005, after the Biblioteca Tintal and Patio Bonito stations were opened, the station began normal operations on one of its three platforms.

[edit] Station Services

[edit] Main Line Service

Service as of April 29, 2006

Type	Northern Routes	Southern Routes	Frequency
Local	B1	F1	Every three minutes
Express Monday through Saturday All day	B14 J23	F14 F23	Every two minutes
Express Monday through Saturday Morning rush	D50 B54		Every two minutes
Express Monday through Saturday Evening rush		F60 F61 F62	Every two minutes
Express Monday through Saturday Off-peak	F70		Every two minutes
Express Sundays and holidays	C91	F91	Every 34 minutes

[edit] Feeder routes

The following feeder routes serve this station:

• Ruta 9.1 Casablanca loop
• Ruta 9.2 Metrovivienda loop
• Ruta 9.3 Bosa La Libertad loop
• Ruta 9.4 Patio Bonito loop
• Ruta 9.5 Avenida Tintal loop
• Ruta 9.6 Avenida Villavicencio loop
• Ruta 9.7 Bosa la Independencia loop

[edit] Inter-city service

Despite having three platforms, the Portal de las Américas does not have inter-city buses because it is located in a populous area in the southwest of the city, far from any routes leaving town.

[edit] External links

• TransMilenio

[edit] See also

• Bogotá
• TransMilenio
• List of TransMilenio Stations