Morumbi is a

train station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing suc ...

ViaMobilidade ViaMobilidade is a company in Brazil belonging to Companhia de Concessões Rodoviárias, being responsible for the operation, maintenance and investments in Line 5–Lilac, Line 8–Diamond and Line 9–Emerald of São Paulo Metropolitan Trains ...

Line 9-Emerald, located in the limits of district of Santo Amaro. It will be connected to

Line 17-Gold, scheduled to 2nd semester of 2022.

History

Morumbi station was built and opened by Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana (along with Jurubatuba branch), on January 25, 1957, and demolished in the 1970s by FEPASA during the remodeling of commuter trains. Because of the lack of funds, its reconstruction project was paralyzed during all the 1980s, being reestablished only in 1994, when the architectural project was hired from architect Luiz Carlos Esteves. In 1992, CPTM launched the project South Dinamization, which wanted to conclude the construction of the remaining stations of the line.

Toponymy

The word "Morumbi" is an indigenous term of

Tupi Tupi may refer to: * Tupi people of Brazil * Tupi or Tupian languages, spoken in South America ** Tupi language, an extinct Tupian language spoken by the Tupi people * Tupi oil field off the coast of Brazil * Tupi Paulista, a Brazilian municipalit ...

origin that can mean "green fly" (''moru'': fly, and ''mbi'': green). The ethnologist Eduardo Navarro defends that "Morumbi" has other meanings, as from the tupi ''maromby'', which meaning is "river of the big fishes" (''maromba'': "big fish"; ''y'': "river"), or ''marumbi'', term of Portuguese language that means "lagoon full of taboas".

References

Railway stations opened in 1957 {{SãoPaulo-metro-stub