Scenic route
Bonde de Santa Teresa
Rio de Janeiro (Carioca) → Dois Irmãos · Brazil
Bonde de Santa Teresa in pictures
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- Distance
- 6 km
- Fastest time
- 23 min
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- CENTRAL (Rio de Janeiro State)
- Train
- Yellow open-sided trams (1,100 mm gauge)
- Countries
- Brazil
- In service since
- 1896
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Latin America’s oldest electric tramway (1896) rattles across the Carioca Aqueduct’s arches and up Santa Teresa’s cobbled lanes high above downtown Rio.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19704294 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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