Connections Transantiago buses Phone +56 600 600 9292 Platforms in use 2 | Tracks 2 Disabled access Yes Opened 5 April 1997 | |
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Location General Bustamante Avenue / Irarrázaval Avenue Similar Santa Isabel metro stat, Santa Ana metro station, Pedro de Valdivia metro stat, La Moneda metro station, Santa Lucía metro stat | ||
Irarrázaval is a metro station on Line 5 of the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile. The station is so named due to its location beneath Avenida Irarrázaval, a main road of the commune of Ñuñoa, which in turn was named after the Chilean lawyer and politician Manuel José Yrarrázaval Larraín.
Contents
The station is located underground, between stations Santa Isabel to the north and Ñuble to the south. Vicuña Mackenna Avenue is one block to the west of the station.
Access to Irarrázaval metro station is via Avenida General Bustamante as it intersects with Avenida Irarrázaval, and via the interior of Bustamante Park facing Avenida Irarrázaval. The station also has disability access.
Future transfer station
Irarrázaval metro station will be a transfer station for the constructing Line 3, which will run between to-be-built stations Huechuraba to the northeast and Larraín to the east of Santiago, including existing stations Universidad de Chile and Plaza Egaña. Construction on Line 3 began in September 2012.
Surrounds
To the south of the station at the intersection with Grecia Avenue is the site of the former Suárez Mujica Palace, a Neoclassic Greco-Roman construction which was destroyed by fire in 2005. Prior to the disaster this was known as "the haunted house".