Uruguai Station
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 Opening day of Uruguai Station in March 2014 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Rua Conde de Bonfim, 743 Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro Brazil | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°55′57″S 43°14′19″W / 22.9325°S 43.238611°W | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metrô Rio | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Line 1 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Uruguai Station (Portuguese:Estação Uruguai) is a station on the Rio de Janeiro Metro that services the neighbourhood of Tijuca in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
The station was opened in 2014, more than 30 years after initially being promised. Uruguai is the first metro station in Rio de Janeiro to be fitted with Wi-Fi for passenger use.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Hearst, Chesney (17 March 2014). "New Tijuca Metro Station Opened in Rio: Daily". The Rio Times. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Estação Uruguai do metrô é aberta ao público na Tijuca". O Globo (in Portuguese). 15 March 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Uruguai - Sobre a Estação" (in Portuguese). MetrôRio. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
