Juan Manuel de Rosas (Buenos Aires Underground)

Juan Manuel de Rosas
General information
Location	Triunvirato and Monroe
Coordinates	34°34′26″S 58°29′12″W
Platforms	Island platforms
Connections	Mitre Line
History
Opened	July 26, 2013
Services
Preceding station Buenos Aires Underground Following station Terminus Line B Echeverría towards Leandro N. Alem

Juan Manuel de Rosas - Villa Urquiza is a terminus station on Line B of the Buenos Aires Underground. It is placed beneath Avenida Triunvirato, between Avenida Monroe and Avenida Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the Villa Urquiza barrio, and is an important transfer center with General Urquiza station in the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre. It is named after Juan Manuel de Rosas, a politician, army officer and caudillo who ruled the Argentine Confederation almost uninterruptedly from 1829 until 1852.

The station opened for use on July 26, 2013 as part of the extension of the line from Los Incas - Parque Chas.^[1] It had previously been planned to open in 2011.^[2][3][4] It also connects with General Urquiza station on the Mitre Line commuter rail service.

References

1. Schwandl, Robert. "Buenos Aires". urbanrail.
2. Subte: retoman las obras para terminar 7 estaciones (Spanish) by clarin.com, February 10, 2010.
3. Subte: 5 nuevas estaciones a fin de año Archived 2014-11-04 at the Wayback Machine (Spanish) by lanacion.com.ar, July 3, 2012
4. Echeverría y Rosas, inauguradas (Spanish) by enelsubte.com July 26, 2013.

External links

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