Bustamante Park (station)

Parque Bustamante is an underground railway station on line 5 of the Santiago de Chile metro; It is located between the Baquedano and Santa Isabel stations, under the park of the same name, in the commune of Providencia.

Features and environment

Parque Bustamante has a regular influx of passengers, which increases - exceptionally compared to other stations - at school entrance times, since a large percentage of the passengers who board or leave the station attend, either as students or workers, to nearby schools. The decoration of the station is subject to the canons of the environment, as it shows alternating white and green squares, in direct reference to the park above the station.

In the immediate surroundings of the station, to the west, is the emblematic Liceo Carmela Carvajal de Prat, the second best municipal high school in the country, the Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna Museum and the Workers' Hospital, next to Bustamante Park, in Ramón Carnicer 185, corner of Francisco Bilbao Avenue. The park to which it owes its name is the most important landmark, a green area that extends between Plaza Baquedano (popularly known as Plaza Italia) and Calle Marín. In it, a few steps from the station, is the amphitheater, where fairs and shows of various kinds are held; A little further south, along General Bustamante Avenue (that is, on the eastern side), on the corner with Jofre is the church of Our Lady of Pompeya, also called the Migrants' Parish.

Accesses

Access	Intersection
A	Av. Francisco Bilbao with Ramón Carnicer
B	Av. General Bustamante with Av. Francisco Bilbao

Etymological origin

Its name comes from the aforementioned Bustamante park —and this one, from José Antonio Bustamante, a soldier who fought in the battles of Chacabuco and Maipú—, which is located right above the station. Initially it had the preliminary name of "Bilbao", due to being located at the intersection of General Bustamante Avenue and Francisco Bilbao Avenue.

Its pictogram presented a tree, also making reference to Bustamante Park.

MetroArte

Two months after the station opened, on July 15, 1997, Pablo Rivera's sculpture group The Place of Things (made of reinforced polyester resin and patinated with copper).

A decade later, the Chilean Security Association—the same one that had been one of the sponsors of Rivera's sculpture—commissioned the painter Mono González to create a large mural to commemorate the 50 years of the institution. As a result, on September 30, 2008, Life and work: the eyes and hands of effort was inaugurated, a work of 223 meters long and 673 m² of paint that became the longest mural painted in Chile. González is the founder and graphic precursor of the characteristic Ramona Parra Brigade, which during the years of the Popular Unity filled Chile with murals and colors.

Gallery

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  Cenefa used in 1997.

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  Cenefa used in the platforms.

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  Battery sector.

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  The place of thingsRivera

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  Life and work, de González

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Connection with Metropolitan Mobility Network

The station has 3 stops of the Metropolitan Mobility Network in its surroundings (without the existence of stop 3), which correspond to: