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The population of the city of Rio de Janeiro, occupying an area of 1,182.3 square kilometers (456.5 sq mi), [3] is about 6,000,000. [4] The population of the greater metropolitan area is estimated at 11–13.5 million. Residents of the city are known as cariocas. The official song of Rio is "Cidade Maravilhosa", by composer André Filho.
Sugarloaf seen from Urca hill. Sugarloaf view from Botafogo beach Sunrise in Rio de Janeiro with Sugarloaf Mountain, as seen from Tijuca Forest. Sugarloaf Mountain (Portuguese: Pão de Açúcar, pronounced [ˈpɐ̃w dʒ(i) ɐˈsukaʁ]) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a peninsula at the mouth of Guanabara Bay.
In mid 2018, the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced it would be undertaking a major flood control project of the river, with a budget of $82.9 million. [4]In mid 2021, funding was appropriated for work on the Río Grande de Arecibo, including work to improve the natural habitat of local species, including the Puerto Rican crested toad and a Río Grande de Arecibo canalization ...
Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu] ⓘ [6]), or simply Rio, [7] is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo ) and the sixth-most-populous city in the Americas.
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 ...
View of Rio de Janeiro from the church of the monastery of São Bento c. 1820. Historically, Rio's population grew primarily as a result of domestic migration, which in some years accounted for two-thirds of the city's increase, although many people immigrated from European countries as well. Government policies began restricting foreign ...
List of rivers in Rio de Janeiro (Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in Rio de Janeiro drain to the Atlantic Ocean.
The South Zone (Portuguese: Zona Sul; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈzonɐ ˈsuw]) is an area of the city of Rio de Janeiro situated between the Tijuca Massif, the Atlantic Ocean and Guanabara Bay. Most of it is made up of neighborhoods along the Atlantic coastline, such as São Conrado, Vidigal, Leblon, Ipanema, Copacabana, and Leme.