Portal de Suba is one of the terminus stations of the TransMilenio mass-transit system of

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 larges ...

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, which opened in the year 2000.

Location

Portal de Suba is located in northwestern Bogotá, specifically on

Avenida Suba 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'', m ...

with

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History

The station opened April 29, 2006 after several months of construction delays on the line. The largest delay was in the construction of the underpass at the intersection of Avenida Suba with NQS and Avenida Calle 80. It is one of the two termini that serve the locality of Suba (the other being the Portal del Norte). Nearby is the Imperial shopping center, with its anchor Carrefour and the Éxito of Suba.

Station services

Main line service

Feeder routes

The station has the following feeder routes: * Avenida Suba loop * San Andrés loop * Villamaría loop * Aures loop * Avenida Cali loop * Las Mercedes loop * Pinar loop * La Gaitana loop * Lisboa loop * Bilbao loop

Intermunicipal services

In the outside part of the Portal of Suba there is a Satellite Transport Parabiter from where they leave intermunicipal buses with different destinies to the nearby municipalities like Cota and Chía.

External links

TransMilenio