Estación Cinco de Mayo | |||||||||||
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| Panama Metro station | |||||||||||
 5 de Mayo station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Avenida Justo Arosemena Calidonia, Panamá District Panama City Panama | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 8°57′43.4″N 79°32′24.3″W / 8.962056°N 79.540083°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 5 April 2014 | ||||||||||
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5 de Mayo is a Panama Metro station on Line 1.[1] It was one of the metro network's first 11 stations, opened on 5 April 2014 and commencing operations the following day.[1]
The station is the closest to Panama City's Old Town. It is also located closest to the Metropolitan cathedral, Cinta Costera and Oceanographic museum.[2] In its first year of operations, 5 de Mayo was the second most used station on the network, carrying 16% of the system's users at peak times.[3]
- ^ a b "Hoy será la apertura oficial de la Línea Uno del Metro de Panamá" [Today will see the official opening of Line 1 of Panama metro]. La Prensa (in Spanish). Panama City. 5 April 2014. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ Chávez, Mario (18 July 2014). "Así es la primera línea de metro de Panamá" [This is Line 1 of Panama metro]. Forbes Mexico (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ Alvarado, Nicanor (5 April 2015). "Línea Uno del metro: un año y 693 millones de dólares después" [Metro line 1: a year and 693 million dollars later]. La Estrella de Panamá (in Spanish). Panama City. Retrieved 14 November 2016.