Originally named Mapocho, it was renamed to Puente Cal y Canto shortly after its opening.

Nearby points of interest are the Estación Mapocho Culture Center and the Santiago Seafood Market.

This sector is located to the east of the station, or direction Vespucio norte at the two ends of the platform, a large space totally empty, with clear evidence that something is missing, and it is possible to see such structures, who were analyzed and rectified, in the place of the ticket counter corresponds to the place where goes the passage seen in the image 1, and the side structures have to be removed, so it will be appreciated the view point downwards, towards the line 3.

That red wall that can be seen is clearly provisional, it isn't totally solid, as well as the unions with the concrete ceiling that is notably not coincident.

Metro modified the location of the work, placing it a few meters to the west (in direction vespucio Norte-La Cisterna), by the fact that the line 3 will go underneath Calle Bandera and not by the axis Puente-Ahumada (according to the original project) also that the fact that the trains that will be used (AS-2014) will be of broad loading gauge, unlike the NS-74 trains of the epoch.