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Puente Alto

Puente Alto is a city and commune of Chile.

Puente Alto
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The place

Puente Alto is a city and commune of Chile. It is the capital of the Cordillera Province in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, and is located in the south-east corner of the Greater Santiago conurbation. It has a population of 568,086, making it the most populous commune of Chile.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Puente Alto

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida

    Estadio Bicentenario Municipal de La Florida is a multi-purpose stadium, located in La Florida, in eastern Santiago. It is the home stadium of the Chilean football team Audax Italiano.

    8.5 km · Chilean stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Estadio Municipal de La Pintana

    Estadio Municipal de La Pintana is a football stadium in La Pintana, Santiago, Chile. It is the home stadium of Santiago Morning and former home stadium for Deportes Pintana.

    7.2 km · stadium in Santiago, Chile · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Puente Alto-El Volcan Railway

    The Puente Alto-El Volcán Railway was a small military railway between Puente Alto and the outpost of El Volcán in Chile. The railway had a narrow gauge of 600 mm, and was constructed in 1906 under Chile's Ministry of Railways.

    7.9 km · national monument of Chile · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Puente Alto

Airports
Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL), 32 km · Governor Francisco Gabrielli (MDZ), 187 km
Stations
La Granja, 9.6 km · Plaza de Puente Alto, 1.2 km · San José de la Estrella, 7.3 km · Elisa Correa, 5.5 km · Hospital Sótero del Río, 4.6 km
  • Concepcion → Puente Alto
    422 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · CLP$63,190–97,290
  • Temuco → Puente Alto
    598 km · quickest by air, 6h 2m · CLP$82,970–128,020
  • Mendoza → Puente Alto
    180 km · quickest by road, 6h 58m · AR$22,150–29,550
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Puente Alto

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Puente Alto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChiloéCL

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,050 km
  2. 02
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,213 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,508 km
  4. 04
    El ChalténAR

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,758 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,151 km

If you know how people move in Puente Alto – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Puente Alto

Puente Alto is 19 km from Santiago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.