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Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's primary tourist attraction and resort. It receives the most visitors per year of any city in South America with 2.82 million international tourists a year. [217] Attractions in the city include approximately 80 kilometers of beaches, Corcovado and Sugarloaf mountains, and the Maracanã Stadium. While the city had in ...
The current building was constructed by the order of Gomes Freire de Andrade, governor of the Capitania (colonial administrative region) of Rio de Janeiro. The architect was the Portuguese military engineer José Fernandes Pinto Alpoim, a close collaborator of the governor, who greatly enlarged the existing buildings of the Royal mint and the Royal storage house which existed in the same place.
The original demonym for the State of Rio de Janeiro is fluminense, from Latin flumen, fluminis, meaning "river".While carioca (from Old Tupi) is an older term, first attested in 1502, fluminense was sanctioned in 1783, twenty years after the city had become the capital of the Brazilian colonies, as the official demonym of the Royal Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro and subsequently of the Province ...
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), located in the Southeast Region of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is divided into 92 municipalities, which were, until 2017, grouped into 18 microregions, which were grouped into 6 mesoregions. [1] Municipalities of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. See table for key. [n 1]
Urca is a traditional and wealthy residential neighborhood with nearly 7,000 inhabitants (2000 census) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Although most of the neighborhood dates from the 1920s, parts of it are much older.
Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro 134 m (440 ft) 30 1991 Frederico Bokel [40] Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro 134 m (440 ft) 37 1970 78 Barão de Iguape [57] São Paulo São Paulo 133 m (436 ft) 37 1959 79 Edifício Conde Pereira Carneiro [58] Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro 133 m (436 ft) 43 1976 80 Freguesia de Casa Forte [59] Recife Pernambuco
The Carioca Aqueduct (Portuguese: Aqueduto da Carioca), also known as Arcos da Lapa, is an aqueduct in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aqueduct was built in the middle of the 18th century to bring fresh water from the Carioca River to the population of the city. It is a typical example of colonial architecture and engineering.
The Laranjeiras Palace (Portuguese: Palácio das Laranjeiras; literally "Palace of the Orange Trees") is the official residence of the Governor of the State of the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The palace is located within Eduardo Guinle Park, a park in the Laranjeiras neighborhood of the city of Rio de Janeiro.