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Deportivo station

metro station in Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ25421217 ↗
Source-derived summary

Deportivo is a rapid transit station in San Juan agglomeration, Puerto Rico. It is located between Bayamón and Jardines on the sole line of the Tren Urbano system, in Bayamón, just outside of its downtown (Bayamón Pueblo). The trial service ran in 2004, however, the regular service only started on 6 June 2005.

The station is named after the Bayamón Sports Complex (Spanish: Complejo Deportivo de Bayamón) which is located nearby.

Bus connections

The bus stops are located north of the station past the Bayamón Judicial Center along PR-2.

T2: Bayamón TU station (through Juan Ponce de León Ave) – Sagrado Corazón TU station

T3 (M3): Bayamón TU station (through Juan Ponce de León Ave) – Sagrado Corazón TU station

In addition to AMA services, the bus terminal also has connections to municipal buses and local carros públicos.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Deportivo station” as metro station in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Deportivo, station and metro can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as metro station in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25421217. Authority coordinates are 18.394, -66.149. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2005.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Deportivo station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Deportivo station primary sources, Deportivo station archive and Deportivo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Deportivo station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.