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The Tijuca National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Tijuca) is an urban national park in the mountains of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The park is part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Preserve , [ 1 ] and is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).
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Of these, the two most visited were the Tijuca with 1.7 million visitors and the Iguaçu with 1 million visitors, together accounting for 71% of all visits to national parks in Brazil in 2009. [17] In 2011 it was estimated that the potential revenue from Brazil's national parks could be around R$1.7 billion annually by 2016. [ 14 ]
OPINION: Tijuca National Park is the largest urban rainforest in the world and the heart of Rio. Now, the little-known story of how six enslaved Black Brazilians helped save the land from complete ...
The city has parks and ecological reserves such as the Tijuca National Park, the world's first urban forest and UNESCO Environmental Heritage and Biosphere Reserve; Pedra Branca State Park, which houses the highest point of Rio de Janeiro, the peak of Pedra Branca; the Quinta da Boa Vista complex; the Botanical Garden; [5] Rio's Zoo; Parque Lage; and the Passeio Público, the first public park ...
Cyrela Brazil Realty is the largest homebuilder and real estate company by revenue and market value in Brazil. Considered one of the most solid of the civil construction sector, currently operates in 16 states and 66 cities in Brazil, in addition to Argentina and Uruguay . [ 1 ]
Since 1961, the Tijuca National Park (Parque Nacional da Tijuca), the largest city-surrounded urban forest and the second largest urban forest in the world, has been a National Park. The largest urban forest in the world is the Floresta da Pedra Branca (White Rock Forest), which is located in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
Pedra da Gávea is a monolithic mountain in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is 844 metres (2,769 ft), making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean. [2]