Caracas Libertador Simón Bolívar railway station is found in the southern part of
Caracas
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
,
Venezuela
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, in an area known as La Rinconada.
Overview
The station is the Caracas
terminus of the line
Ezequiel Zamora I which connects the
Tuy valley to the capital. Presently it serves as the only point of arrival or departure by train to or from Caracas.
Those arriving from the Tuy valley can easily transfer from the railway station to
La Rinconada Caracas Metro
The Caracas Metro () is a mass rapid transit system serving Caracas, Venezuela. It was constructed and is operated by Compañía Anónima Metro de Caracas, a government-owned company that was founded in 1977 by José González-Lander who ...
station. The train station and metro station came into service during the inaugurational runs from Caracas to the Tuy valley towns on October 15, 2006.
The short-distance trains connect the suburban towns of:
*
Charallave
Charallave is a city in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, and part of Miranda's Valles del Tuy region. It is the capital of Cristóbal Rojas Municipality. The name derives from the local ''Charavares'' indigenous people found at the time the ci ...
(2 stations)
** the North one
Generalísmo Francisco de Miranda 17 minutes
** the South one
Don Simón Rodríguez 21 minutes
*
Cúa (1 station)
**
General Ezequiel Zamora Station 31 minutes
References
Railway stations in Venezuela opened in 2006
Buildings and structures in Caracas
Transport in Caracas
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