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"Rio-Niterói" started as a descriptive nickname that soon became better known than the official name. Today hardly anyone refers to it by its official name. In 2012 a bill was introduced to change its official name, President Costa e Silva Bridge - the second president of the Brazilian military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985 - to Herbert ...
Rio de Janeiro was the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, making the city the first South American and Portuguese-speaking city to ever host the events, and the third time the Olympics were held in a Southern Hemisphere city. [13]
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]
The Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro, IFRJ), or in full: Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro) is an institution that offers high and professional educations by having a pluricurricular form.
During the colonial period, especially when Rio de Janeiro was a captaincy, several towns were founded, in addition to the city of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, which served as its administrative center: Angra dos Santos Reis da Ilha Grande (1608), Santa Helena (later Nossa Senhora da Assunção de Cabo Frio, 1615), Nossa Senhora dos ...
Barra de Guaratiba, Guaratiba, Pedra de Guaratiba: 123,114 [27] XXVII Rocinha Rocinha: 69,356 [28] XXVIII Jacarezinho Jacarezinho: 37,839 [29] XXIX Complexo do Alemão Complexo do Alemão: 69,143 [30] XXX Maré Maré: 129,770 [31] XXXI Vigário Geral Cordovil, Jardim América, Parada de Lucas, Vigário Geral: 136,171 [32] XXXIII Realengo
Jacarepaguá (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒakaɾepaˈɡwa]), with a land area of 29.27 square miles (75.8 km 2), is a neighborhood situated in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] In 2010, it had a population of 157,326.