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Horto station

Rapid transit railway station in Belo Horizonte

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ10275860 ↗
Source-derived summary

Horto is a Belo Horizonte Metro station on Line 1. It was opened in December 1992 as a one-station extension of the line from Santa Efigênia; later, Santa Tereza was added in the middle of this extension. In December 1994, the line was extended to Santa Inês. The station is located between Santa Tereza and Santa Inês.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Horto station” is rapid transit railway station in Belo Horizonte. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Horto, station and Rapid, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Horto, station and Rapid is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “rapid transit railway station in Belo Horizonte” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10275860. Authority coordinates are -19.906, -43.913. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 1994.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Horto station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Horto station primary sources, Horto station archive and Horto research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Horto station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Horto station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.