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The park boundaries as of 2011. Tijuca National Park is claimed to be the world's largest urban forest, [1] covering some 39.58 square kilometres (15.28 sq mi), [8] although this title is disputed with Johannesburg, South Africa. [9] The park shares its name with the bairros (neighborhoods) of Tijuca and Barra da Tijuca nearby.
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 ...
There are at least 62 species of mammals known to occur in the Tijuca National Park in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. [1] Infraclass: ...
A colored lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann of the Tijuca forest waterfall in the Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro, circa 1830s. Tourists are sketching the view while locals work nearby.
The mountain is the most prominent peak of the Rio de Janeiro City urban zone. Pico da Tijuca is part of the 3,958.41 hectares (9,781.4 acres) Tijuca National Park protected area, established in 1961. There are stairs cut in the rock to reach the top of the peak. [3]
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 ]
Corcovado (Portuguese pronunciation: [koʁkoˈvadu]) which means "hunchback" in Portuguese, [1] is a mountain in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a 710-metre (2,330-foot) granite peak located in the Tijuca Forest, a national park. Corcovado hill lies just west of the city center but is wholly within the city limits and visible from great ...
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