LRT-1 - Monumento Station (Caloocan City South)

Philippines / Southern Tagalog / Niogan / Caloocan City South / Rizal Avenue Extension (R-9), 706
 light rail station, train station

Monumento station is a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. Like all other Line 1 stations, Monumento is above-ground. The station serves the southern portion of Caloocan, and is named after the most famous landmark of Caloocan, the Monumento Circle, which houses the Bonifacio Monument, a famous monument to Andrés Bonifacio. The name Monumento itself is derived from the Spanish word for monument. Being a former terminal in Line 1, it is called Monumento Terminal.

Monumento is located on Rizal Avenue in Calaanan West & Calaanan East, Caloocan. It is the third station for trains headed to Baclaran, the eighteenth station for trains headed to Roosevelt, and is one of the two Line 1 stations serving the City of Caloocan, the other being 5th Avenue.

LRTA has modified two tracks at Monumento to go to Balintawak, Roosevelt, and North Avenue.

It underwent renovations on September 2017 and was relaunched on February 14, 2018 as Yamaha Monumento station as Light Rail Manila Corporation entered into a naming rights deal with Yamaha Motor Philippines.
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Coordinates:   14°39'15"N   120°59'1"E
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