Barra do Piraí

Barra do Piraí
Coordinates: 22 ° 28 ′  S , 43 ° 50 ′  W Barra do Piraí​ Barra do Piraí on the map of Brazil
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Rio de Janeiro
City foundation	March 10, 1890
Residents	94,855  (Ber. 2010)
City insignia
Detailed data
surface	578 km 2
Population density	164 inhabitants / km 2
height	363  m
City structure	6th
Waters	Rio Paraíba do Sul
prefix	005524
Time zone	UTC −3
City Presidency	Espedito Monteiro de Almeida
City patron	Saint Anne , city festival on July 26th
Website	www.pmbp.rj.gov.br
Barra do Piraí train station

Barra do Piraí , officially Município de Barra do Piraí , is a municipality in Brazil .

geography

It is located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro , about 80 kilometers north of its capital at an altitude of 363 above sea level. Barra do Piraí consists of the six districts of Barra do Piraí (city administration), Ipiabas , Vargem Alegre , Dorândia , São José do Turvo , Califórnia da Barra . Almost 95,000 people live here.

The name of the city is derived from the river Rio Piraí , which flows through the place and has formed a sand bank here over time.

traffic

The city received a railway connection in 1864. Today it is a railway junction . The routes departing from the station connect three of the most important economic centers in Brazil: São Paulo , Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte .

On August 7, 1956, a serious railway accident occurred near Barra do Piraí : A freight train ran into a passenger train . More than 20 people died.

Web links

Commons : Barra do Piraí  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Portuguese)
• Association for the Preservation of Historic Railway Lines (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 155.