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Rio de Janeiro 32 images Created 17 Apr 2010

Rio de Janeiro

Photographs of my hometown Rio de Janeiro from my personal perspective and aestethic.
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  • Landship nova 2019.tif
  • Colored houses and the white rises.tif
  • The dark bird and the violent city.tif
  • Forsaken Corcel in Santa Teresa .tif
  • Guanabara bay and the Rio-Niteroi br...tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
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A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. In the late 18th century, the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighbourhoods). This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many freed black slaves moved in.<br />
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Even before the first "favela" came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from downtown and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s, due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Without finding a place to live, many people ended up in a favela.<br />
Census data released in December 2011 by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) shows that in 2010, about (6%) of the population lived in slums in Brazil. It means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people lived in the country areas of irregular occupation and lack of public services or urbanization - called by the IBGE of "subnormal agglomerations."<br />
The original favela was erected on the Morro de Castelo in Rio de Janeiro by the families of soldiers returning from the Canudos Campaign of 1897, to beg for their salaries.<br />
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The term favela was coined in the late 1800's. At the time, 20,000 veteran soldiers were brought from the conflict against the settlers of Canudos, in the Eastern province of Bahia, to Rio de Janeiro and left with no place to live. When they served the army in Bahia, those soldiers had been familiar with Canudos's Favela Hill — a name referring to favela, a skin-irritating tree in the spurge family indigenous to Bahia, Jatropha phyllacantha (or else the related faveleira tree, Cnidoscolus quercifolius). When they settled in the Providência [Providence] hill in Rio de Janeiro, they nicknamed the place Favela hill from their common reference, thereby calling a slum a favela for the first time.
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  • Ipanema seashore and Rodrigo de Frei...tif
  • Hanging painter.tif
  • Trafego caótico centro in colors.tif
  • Santa Teresa Tram car in repair gara...tif
  • Vertical frozen heat island.tif
  • Jockey and Leblon.tif
  • Forsaken Corcel Interior.tif
  • Rio Trash.tif
  • Downtown`s post modern apocalyptic ...tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
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View of Rio de Janeiro from its neighbor city, Niteroi.
    Cosmic bay.tif
  • Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon and the Ipanema sea from heights.
    Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon and the Ip...tif
  • The port of Rio de Janeiro is a port city of Rio de Janeiro, capital of the homonymous state, Brazil. Your pier includes fringes of the Centre and the neighborhoods of Gamboa, Saúde, Santo Cristo and Caju.<br />
It serves the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Bahia and south of Goiás, among others.<br />
It is one of the busiest in the country regarding the value of goods and tonnage. Iron ore, manganese, coal, wheat, oil and gas are the main products disposed.<br />
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O Porto do Rio de Janeiro é um porto da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, capital do estado homônimo, Brasil. Seu cais compreende as orlas marítimas do Centro e dos bairros da Gamboa, Saúde, Santo Cristo e Caju.<br />
O Porto do Rio de Janeiro atende aos estados do Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia e sudoeste de Goiás, entre outros.<br />
É um dos mais movimentados do país quanto ao valor das mercadorias e à tonelagem. Minério de ferro, manganês, carvão, trigo, gás e petróleo são os principais produtos escoados.
    Concrete, water and steel.tif
  • Carioca.tif
  • Cool Dog.tif
  • Trafego caotico centro.tif
  • Map.tif
  • Downtown Heat.tif
  • Flamengo Beach bike.tif
  • Gloria is a neighborhood of middle class and upper-middle of the city of Rio de Janeiro, located at the northern end of Praia do Flamengo. Previously it was called Urucu-Mirim (little bee).<br />
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The neighborhood owes its name to the Church of Nossa Senhora da Gloria do Outeiro, one of the first city built in the eighteenth century, around which the settlement was consolidated in the region.<br />
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Until the 1930s was considered the Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) Rio, because since the end of 1880 was home to hotels that served as the residence deputies, senators in office in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital. Much of its architectural and urban models were inspired by Paris, just consider the Paris Square, a true French garden. It was in this neighborhood that Machado de Assis among other artists, musicians and personalities created the famous Beethoven Club, a select group gathered to hear the works of German composer.<br />
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Between 30 and 60 years of the twentieth century, the mansions in eclectic style and a good part of workers' villages give way to buildings, which ended up giving the neighborhood the look it has today.
    Gloria tree.tif
  • Hiding mico.tif
  • Tijuca.tif
  • Red beach.tif
  • Fine art photography of Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay and the Sugar Loaf.
    Rio de Janeiro and the colors of Bra...tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
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Kombi is an old type of RV from Volkswagen. Although old there is still a lot circulation in Brazil's traffic
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  • The white fishes and the colorful ci...tif