Rio de Janeiro

Introduction In 1565, the Portuguese discovered São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, and was named after St. Sebastian, who was the namesake and patron of the Portuguese Monarch D. Sebastião. In the late 1600s, the Bandeirantes, fortune hunters, discovered gold and diamonds nearly Rio de Janeiro. Therefore, the city became more convenient for the Portuguese exportations. During 1800s, many Portuguese fled to Rio in order to escape Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal. There were hundreds of noblemen who

games will be taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. When countries win the rights to host the game, they usually construct all sorts of expensive, beautiful arenas and venues to impress the hundreds of millions of viewers. The venues for the upcoming games in Brazil are far from beautiful. The natural bodies of water that will be hosting the rowing, canoeing, and other various aquatic

sources of happiness in each person as their remembrances of these arise. Rio de Janeiro has that special ability of brightening up my day simply from the memories that come up as I recall my family and my trip to this unforgettably Marvelous City in 2013. My expectations of this place were based off previous knowledge of its wonderful scenery, which was the main purpose for our destination choice. I soon discovered though, that Rio is a magical place, full of surprises at every corner as smells, touch

change has affected many countries especially Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro is one of the world 's megacities with a population over 18 million and because it’s a megacity it is a large attraction to many people that look to live in a big city. This is causing expansion on a huge scale on the city, called urban growth. People move because of pull factors in the big city like better jobs. Some Urban migrators go for the Latin American Culture Rio de Janeiro has to offer. But because of Rapid expansion

INTRODUCTION This paper has an objective to present and perform a critical analysis of the Strategic Plan of the city of Rio de Janeiro. With 1.200,278 km² of extension, the municipality of Rio de Janeiro is located at the Southeast of Brazil, and present a population of 6.320.446 inhabitants, according with IBGE (2014), being so the second biggest city in the country. The strategic plan is the first revision of the original plan (2009-2012) and defines the new plan strategies, with new targets,

Rio De Janeiro commonly known as ‘Rio’ is the second largest city in Brazil, 6th largest in America and the 35th largest city in the world by human population. Rio de Janeiro is the capital city of the state Rio de Janeiro. Rio is renowned for being home to one of the worlds most famous hill of slums known as Favelas. The first favela was built from returning soldiers from the canudos campaign in the late 1800’s. 20,000 of them we’re left homeless and needed somewhere to live. They started to tower

the most dangerous in the world. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, there were 40,974 murders in 2010. This means that for every 100,000 inhabitants, 21 are murdered --- compared to the global rate of 6.9. (“Violent”). “Rio de Janeiro is a tale of two cities. On the one hand, the glitz and glamour designed to impress the world and on the other, a city marked by repressive police interventions that are decimating a significant part of a generation of young, black and poor men

Rio De Janeiro Rio De Janeiro, Brazil is a small but very adventurous city. Rio De Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities to go see because of all the rich history that is there. Like the statue of Jesus on top of a mountain. People come to Rio De Janeiro on vacations and to see all of the wonderful cities to see. Rio De Janeiro is a very exciting place to visit, if you go visit any place I think it should be Rio because of all the beautiful animals that live there and all the kind people that

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil is a small but very adventurous city. Rio De Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities to go see because of all the rich history that is there. Like the statue of Jesus on top of a mountain. People come to Rio De Janeiro on vacations and to see all of the wonderful cities to see. Rio De Janeiro is a very exciting place to visit, if you go visit any place I think it should be Rio because of all the beautiful animals that live there and all the kind people that would love to

accomplish the following aims: contribute to the consolidation of the peace process and the promotion of local citizenship in pacified territories; promote urban, social and economic development; carry out the full integration of these areas into the city (Rio Mais