El Silencio station
El Silencio | |||||||||||
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| Caracas Metro rapid transit station | |||||||||||
Station in 2004 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Catedral parish, Municipio Libertador, Capital District Venezuela | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 10°30′20.0″N 66°55′08.0″W / 10.505556°N 66.918889°W | ||||||||||
| Operated by | C.A. Metro de Caracas | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Line 2 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | underground | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 6 November 1988 | ||||||||||
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El Silencio is a Caracas Metro station on Line 2. It was opened on 6 November 1988 as part of the extension of Line 2 from La Paz to El Silencio. The station serves as the northern terminus of the line and it is a transfer station, connected with Line 1 via Capitolio. The following station is Capuchinos.
It is named after the El Silencio neighborhood, built by Carlos Raúl Villanueva.
In February 2019, the station burned in a large fire of unknown origin.
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