Portal de Suba is one of the terminus stations of the

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mass-transit system of

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, Colombia, which opened in the year 2000.

Location

Portal de Suba is located in northwestern Bogotá, specifically on

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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 Avenue or Avenues may refer to: Roads * Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees) * Avenue Road, Bangalore * Avenue Road, Lon ...

. 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

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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