Travel in Brasil - Great Pocket Guide of Rio de Janeiro by Flashbooking website
August 1, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, capital city of the state of the same name, is situated at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, forming an amphitheatre around the Bay of guanabrara on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Amerigo Vespucci arrived here for the first time on 1st January 1502, leading a Portugeses expedition who, mistaking the bay for the mouth of a river, gave the area the name " January River". "Carioca", was the name given to the Europeans, by the local Indios, a nick-name, that even today is still used by the inhabitants of Rio. [Read more]
