5 de Mayo metro station
Estación Cinco de Mayo | |||||||||||
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5 de Mayo station | |||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||
| System | Panama Metro station | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 5 April 2014 | ||||||||||
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5 de Mayo is a Panama Metro station on Line 1. It was one of the metro network's first 11 stations, opened on 5 April 2014 and commencing operations the following day.
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. 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.