|
Puente Largo (TransMilenio)
The simple station Puente Largo is part of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, which opened in the year 2000. Location The station is located in northwestern Bogotá, specifically on Avenida Suba with Transversal 44. It serves the Puente Largo, Ilarco, and Andes Norte neighborhoods. Nearby is the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas medical center. History In 2006, phase two of the TransMilenio system was completed, including the Avenida Suba line, on which this station is located. The station is named Puente Largo due to the neighborhood located to its east. Station Services Main Line Service {, class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;" , + Service as of April 29, 2006 , - ! Type !! Northern Routes !! Southern Routes !! Frequency , - , Local , , , , , , Every three minutes , - , Express Monday through SaturdayAll day , , , , , , Every two minutes , - , Express Monday through SaturdayMorning rush , , , , , , Every two minutes , - , Expr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suba (Bogotá)
Suba may refer to: Groups of people *Suba people (Kenya), a people of Kenya **Suba language *Suba people (Tanzania), a people of Tanzania * Subha (writers), alternatively spelt Suba, Indian writer duo Individual people *Suba (musician), Serbian-Brazilian musician * Mihai Suba (born 1947), Romanian chess grandmaster Places * Suba District, a former district of Nyanza Province, Kenya * Suba, Bogotá, a locality of Bogotá ** Avenida Suba (Bogotá), main avenue in the city, named after the locality * Suba, Jerusalem, a Palestinian village near Jerusalem depopulated in 1948 Other * ''Suba'' (film), a 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film * Okinawa soba is a type of noodle produced in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Okinawa soba is a regional collective trademark of The Okinawa Noodle Manufacturing Co-op. On Okinawa, it is sometimes simply called ''soba'' (or ''suba'' in Okinawan dialects), althou ... See also * * Subah (other) * Subba (other) {{disambiguation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TransMilenio
TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that serves Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and Soacha. The system opened to the public in December 2000, covering Avenida Caracas, Caracas Avenue and 80 street. Other lines were added gradually over the next several years, and as of 2022, 12 lines totalling run throughout the city. It is part of the city's Integrated Public Transport System (Bogotá), Integrated Public Transport System (''Sistema Integrado de Transporte Público'' [SITP] in Spanish), along with the urban, complementary and special bus services operating on neighbourhoods and main streets. It was inspired by Curitiba's ''Rede Integrada de Transporte'' (Integrated Transportation Network). TransMilenio consists of several interconnected BRT lines, with raised floor stations in the center of a main avenue, or "''troncal''". Passengers typically reach the stations via a bridge over the street. Usually four lanes down the center of the street are dedicated to bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the political, economic, administrative, and industrial center of the country. Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on 6 August 1538 by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh expedition into the Andes conquering the Muisca, the indigenous inhabitants of the Altiplano. Santafé (its name after 1540) became the seat of the government of the Spanish Royal Audiencia of the New Kingdom of Granada (cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), and has a population of 52 million. Colombia's cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a Spanish colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by enslaved Africans, as well as with those of the various Amerindian civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenida Suba (Bogotá)
Avenida Suba is a major road in northern Bogotá, Colombia, connecting the locality of Suba with the rest of the capital. Etymology Avenida Suba is named after the locality Suba. Suba is either derived from the Chibcha contraction ''Suba'', meaning " Flower of the Sun" (uba = "fruit" or "flower", sua = "Sun", minus its last vowel, making it a possessive) or from the words ''sua'' (Sun) and ''sie'' (water). It is also known as ''Troncal Suba'' due to being one of the main lines in the TransMilenio system. Route Its southern end begins at the intersection of Avenida NQS with Calle 80 in the locality of Barrios Unidos. It runs north entering Suba at Calle 100. At the shopping center Centro Suba it splits into two, turning into ''Avenida Transversal de Suba'' (Calle 145) and ''Antigua Avenida de Suba'' (Calle 139). Points of interest along the route * The Portal de Suba of the TransMilenio system * Iserra 100 shopping center * Bulevar Niza shopping center * Centro Suba shoppi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
