Quirino Avenue LRT Station, also known as Quirino, is a station on the Manila LRT

Manila Light Rail Transit System

The Manila Light Rail Transit System, popularly known as the LRT, is a metropolitan rail system serving the Metro Manila area in the Philippines. Although referred to as a light rail system because it originally used light rail vehicles, it has many characteristics of a rapid transit system, such...

 Yellow Line (LRT-1). Like all other LRT-1 stations, Quirino Avenue station is above-ground. The station serves Malate

Malate, Manila

Malate is an old district of the city of Manila in Metro Manila, the Philippines. The district is located at the southern end of the city of Manila, bordered by Pasay City to the south, by Manila Bay to the west, by the district of Ermita to the north and by the districts of Paco and San Andres to...

 in Manila

Manila

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 and is located at the meeting point of Taft Avenue, Quirino Avenue and San Andres Street. The station is named after Quirino Avenue, which is in turn named after former president

President of the Philippines

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 Elpidio Quirino

Elpidio Quirino

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Quirino Avenue station is the sixth station for trains headed to North Avenue

North Avenue LRT Station

North Avenue LRT Station, officially named Metro Manila Integrated Rail Terminal or Common Station, is a proposed station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line under the Line 1 North Extension Project. It is also the first trans-modular station in the Philippines that will connect with LRT-1, MRT-3, MRT-7...

 and the seventeenth station for trains headed to Baclaran

Baclaran LRT Station

Baclaran LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line . The station is located on the last stretches of Taft Avenue, in the Pasay City portion of Baclaran, and, like all other stations on the LRT-1, Baclaran station is above-ground on viaduct...

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Because of its position in Malate, the station is near places such as the Manila Zoo and the offices of the Bureau of Plant Industry

Bureau of Plant Industry (Philippines)

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. It is also close to some of Malate's entertainment areas near the Remedios Circle and M. Adriatico Street, which are also nearby.

Transportation links

Quirino Avenue station is served by buses and jeepneys plying the Taft Avenue route and nearby routes, cycle rickshaws and taxis. They stop near the station and can even be used for trips in and around Malate.

A Philippine National Railways

Philippine National Railways

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 station also exists not very far from the station, called Paco

Paco railway station

Paco station is a station on the Southrail line of the Philippine National Railways. It serves Paco in Manila, Metro Manila. This is also the last station beside Quirino Avenue before turning left beside Pres. Sergio Osmeña Highway .It was originally built across Plaza Dilao in 1900s, which was...

station.