General Osório Station

General Osório / Ipanema
General information
Location	Praça General Osório, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Coordinates	22°59′05″S 43°11′50″W
Platforms	3
Tracks	2
Connections	Metrô Rio Bus Gávea (Metrô na Superfície) Barra Expresso
Construction
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	December 2009; 15 years ago (2009-12)
Services
Preceding station Rio de Janeiro Metro Following station Cantagalo towards Uruguai Line 1 Terminus Terminus Line 4 Nossa Senhora da Paz towards Jardim Oceânico
Location General Osório / Ipanema Location within Rio de Janeiro

General Osório / Ipanema[1] is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Ipanema borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the line's southern terminus. The station opened in December 2009.

Station layout

The station has a layout unusual for Brazil with the two tracks located between three platforms. Internationally this is not uncommon and is referred to as the Spanish solution layout. [2]

Transfers

MetrôRio Bus Service runs the Metrô na Superfície bus to Gávea and the Barra Expresso between General Osório / Ipanema Station and Terminal Alvorada in Barra da Tijuca.[3]

Inside of the station.

Passenger traffic

Historical passenger traffic

Year Passengers ±% 2009 139,639 —     2010 8,950,679 +6309.9% 2011 10,169,059 +13.6% 2012 10,819,513 +6.4% 2013 2,082,358 −80.8% 2014 11,285,181 +441.9% 2015 12,192,476 +8.0%	Year Passengers ±% 2016 12,816,639 +5.1% 2017 7,214,042 −43.7% 2018 6,347,745 −12.0% 2019 6,347,805 +0.0% 2020 2,970,494 −53.2% 2021 2,928,042 −1.4%
Note: This table displays the total amount of passengers reportedly transported in the station in a given year. During part of 2013, the station was closed for work on integration with Line 4; in 2016, Line 4 was inaugurated. These factors serve to explain the sudden dips in traffic. Source: Rio de Janeiro Municipal Government.[4]

Nearby locations

• General Osório Square
• Nossa Senhora da Paz Square
• Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
• Copacabana Beach
• Beach of Ipanema

References

1. "Estações do metrô no Rio receberão complemento com nomes dos bairros onde estão localizadas". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 4 August 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
2. "General Osório". MetrôRio. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
3. "Barra Expresso via General Osório - 525". MetrôRio. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
4. "Total mensal de passageiros transportados no Metrô, segundo as estações e linhas, no Município do Rio de Janeiro entre 1998 e 2021" [Monthly total of passengers transported by the Metro, according to stations and lines, in the Rio de Janeiro city between 1998 and 2021]. Data.rio (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 March 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2023.

External links

Media related to Estação Ipanema/General Osório at Wikimedia Commons