Las Torres Metro Station
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Las Torres is a freeway-median
metro station A metro station or subway station is a station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase Train ticket, tickets, board trains, and Emergency eva ...
on the Line 4 of the
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, in
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,
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. It is built into the
median In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as "the middle" value. The basic fe ...
of Vespucio Sur expressway. The station is located immediately north of the
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of
Américo Vespucio Avenue Américo Vespucio Avenue is a ring road in Santiago, Chile named after Renaissance cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. Two adjacent sections of the avenue are occupied by Vespucio Norte Express and Vespucio Sur free-flow tolling highways, which are ...
and Las Torres Avenue, which is named so because it features high tension towers along its median (Las Torres is Spanish for The Towers). Las Torres Avenue gives its name to the station. The station was opened on 2 March 2006 as part of the connection between Grecia and Vicente Valdés. The station features a sinusoidal roof, with a much larger wave covering the
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level, which is accessed via two pedestrian bridges. Nearby points of interest include the building housing the main offices of the concessionaire of Vespucio Sur and the Doctor Luis Tisné Hospital.


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Santiago Metro stations Railway stations opened in 2006 Railway stations in highway medians Santiago Metro Line 4 {{Santiago-geo-stub