Santo Amaro is a train station on Line 9-Emerald of CPTM in the Santo Amaro district of São Paulo, Brazil.

Santo Amaro
Santo Amaro Station
General information
Location	Av. das Nações Unidas, s/n
Coordinates	23°39′20″S 46°43′14″W
Owned by	Government of the State of São Paulo
Operated by	CPTM
Platforms	Island platform
Connections	Line
Construction
Structure type	Surface
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	João Walter Toscano
Other information
Station code	SAM
History
Opened	January 26, 1986; 36 years ago (1986-01-26)
Previous names	Largo Treze
Services
Preceding station CPTM Following station João Dias towards Osasco Line 9 Socorro towards Varginha
Out-of-system interchange Preceding station São Paulo Metro Following station Giovanni Gronchi towards Capão Redondo Line 5 transfer at Santo Amaro Largo Treze towards Chácara Klabin
Track layout Legend to João Dias to Socorro

Characteristics

Santo Amaro station, which initial name was Largo Treze, was opened on January 26, 1986 by FEPASA. Currently, it's part of CPTM Line 9-Emerald.

The architectonical project was chosen to be integrated into the collection of the Modern Art Museum of Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. Designed by João Walter Toscano, one of the pioneers of the use of steel in civil construction in Brazil, the station was opened in 1986 and stands out for the transparency and the use of natural light, in a reinterpretation of traditional elements of the railway, like the clock tower that refers to 19th century stations.[1]

In that time, the line currently known as CPTM Line 9-Emerald, of which the station is part of, had Pinheiros station as terminus, and the opening of Largo Treze station was considered by Veja São Paulo magazine "a giant step in the enhancement of this line and the daily transportation of a part of the city population".[2] The same publishing classified the station architecture, of steel and reinforced concrete, as "pretty and dashing".[2] The location of the station is at 2 kilometers south from the old Santo Amaro station, demolished in the second half of the 1970s.

References

External links

• Station page in the CPTM website

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