Primera Junta is a station on Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground.[1] It lies at the intersection of Rivadavia Avenue and Del Barco Centenera street, in the neighborhood of Caballito and connects with Caballito station on the Sarmiento Line commuter rail service. The Buenos Aires Historic Tramway (Spanish: Tramway Histórico de Buenos Aires) operates tram cars on a 12-block loop of street tracks used by rapid transit trains en route to the Polvorín Workshop. The station was opened on 1 July 1914 as the western terminus of the extension of the line from Río de Janeiro. It served as the line's terminus until 23 December 2008, when the line was extended to Carabobo.[2]
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| Location | Avenida Rivadavia and Del Barco Centenera | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°37′14.6″S 58°26′29.2″W / 34.620722°S 58.441444°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platforms | ||||||||||
| Connections | Sarmiento Line | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 July 1914 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Caballito, Centenera | ||||||||||
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Nearby
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edit- ^ Information about Primera Junta station on Subterráneos de Buenos Aires (Spanish) Archived 2011-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Schwandl, Robert. "Buenos Aires". urbanrail.
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