Botafogo Station
Botafogo Station (Portuguese: Estação Botafogo; previously Botafogo/Coca-Cola Station[2]) is a subway station on the Rio de Janeiro Metro that serves the neighbourhood of Botafogo in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro.[3]
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 Train at Botafogo station | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Rua Nelson Mandela Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro Brazil | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22.950236°S 43.184197°W | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metrô Rio | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Line 1 Line 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Metrô Na Superfície bus - Botafogo to Gavéa[1] | |||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | BTF | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1981 | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Botafogo | |||||||||||||||
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  Botafogo Location within Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||||||
The station was renamed on 1 January 2021, from Botafogo Station to Botafogo/Coca-Cola Station,[4] after a naming rights purchase by the Brazilian branch of The Coca-Cola Company. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Metrô Rio had been operating at a loss – in July 2020, the passenger flow was just 57% of what it had been in the same period pre-pandemic, and the accumulated deficit was already at R$ 150 million.[5] The station's naming rights sale was used as an alternate mean to generate revenue, and it was chosen for the purchase due to its proximity to Coca-Cola's headquarters, on Botafogo Beach.[5] This change was subsequently reverted between 5 and 7 November 2022, removing the branding and restoring the station's original name.[6]
The station in March 2022, when it was still "Botafogo/Coca-Cola"
The station in February 2023, after its name was reverted to simply "Botafogo"
Passenger traffic
Although the station has been in operation since 1981, passenger data is only made available from 1998 onwards.
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| Note: This table displays the total amount of passengers reportedly transported in the station in a given year. Source: Rio de Janeiro Municipal Government.[7] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- "Mapa Superfície - Botafogo – Gavéa". MetrôRio. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- Lobo, Caio (2 January 2021). "MetrôRio altera nome de estação para "Botafogo Coca-Cola"". Metrô CPTM (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- "Botafogo - Sobre a Estação". MetrôRio. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- "Em crise, Metrô Rio vende nome de estação, que vira Botafogo/Coca-Cola". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- Porcidonio, Gilberto (5 January 2021). "Estação do metrô Botafogo passa a se chamar Botafogo/Coca-Cola". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- "Estação do Metrô Botafogo não usa mais "naming rights" Coca Cola" [Botafogo metro station no longer uses Coca-Cola's "naming rights"]. Agenda Bafafá (in Brazilian Portuguese). 17 November 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- "Total mensal de passageiros transportados no Metrô, segundo as estações e linhas, no Município do Rio de Janeiro entre 1998 e 2023" [Monthly total of passengers transported by the Metro, according to stations and lines, in the Rio de Janeiro city between 1998 and 2023]. Data.rio (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 March 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
