Carandiru is a metro station on São Paulo Metro Line 1-Blue, located in the district of Santana, in São Paulo.

[2] Located in Avenida Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487,[2] in the district of Santana, North Side of São Paulo.

It is next to the location of the old Carandiru Penitentiary, stage of many crises of the penitentiary system during more than 20 years, deactivated and imploded in 2002 to give place to Youth Park (Parque da Juventude).

[2] It also has, besides the access, two gates on each side of the platforms, in a way that the passenger who leaves the train in a platform cannot take the train on the opposite side without paying another fee.

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