List of favelas in Brazil
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This is a list of favela
s in Brazil
. This Portuguese word is commonly used in Brazil.
Favela
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 . 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...
s in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. This Portuguese word is commonly used in Brazil.
Minas Gerais
- Belo HorizonteBelo HorizonteBelo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
- Aglomerado da Serra
- Morro do Papagaio
- Acaba Mundo
Rio de Janeiro
- NiteróiNiteróiNiterói is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeast region of Brazil. It has an estimated population of 487,327 inhabitants and an area of ², being the sixth most populous city in the state and the highest Human Development Index. Integrates the Metropolitan Region of Rio de...
- Grota do Surucucu
- Morro do EstadoMorro do EstadoMorro do Estado is a hill and one of the 48 administrative districts in which the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is divided. It lies in the southern zone of the city, neighboring Ingá and Icaraí. The hill shelters a very poor, often violent favela ....
- Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
(for a complete list, see the article in the Portuguese WikiPedia)- Babilônia
- Benjamin Constant
- Cajueiro
- Cantagalo
- Chapéu Mangueira
- Cidade de DeusCidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro)The neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus is part of the borough of Jacarepaguá, in the Western Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is also known as CDD among their inhabitants....
- Complexo da Maré
- Complexo do AlemãoComplexo do AlemãoComplexo do Alemão is a group of favelas in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.-History:An article published by O Globo in 2007 revealed the origin of Complexo do Alemão. After World War I, a Pole named Leonard Kaczmarkiewicz bought the land...
- do Humaitá
- Dona MartaDona MartaDona Marta or "Favela Santa Marta" is a slum located in Botafogo in the South Zone Rio de Janeiro of Brazil. It has about 8000 residents, with 500 wooden houses, 2000 brick houses, 4 kindergartens, 3 bakeries, 2 sports fields, 1 block of a samba school, 3 military units and 1 smallmarket...
- JacarezinhoJacarezinho, Rio de JaneiroJacarezinho is a Brazilian favela with more than 60,300 residents living in an area of 40 ha. The place is located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro city, and it borders the neighborhoods of Jacaré, Méier, Engenho Novo and Triagem. It is the third largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, only behind...
- Ladeira dos Tabajaras
- Mangueira
- Manguinhos
- Mineira
- Morro Azul
- Morro da BabilôniaMorro da BabilôniaThe Morro da Babilônia is a favela in the Leme neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, built on a steep ridge separating Copacabana beach from Botafogo....
- Morro de Santa Marta
- Morro do Borel
- Morro dos Cabritos
- Morro do Cantagalo
- Morro dos Macacos
- Pavão-Pavãozinho
- RocinhaRocinhaRocinha is the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is located in Rio's South Zone between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one kilometre from a nearby beach...
- Salgueiro
- SerrinhaSerrinhaSerrinha is a Bahian city with 71,383 people. The mayor is Tania de Freitas Motas Lomes of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Serrinha.- External links :*...
- Tavares Bastos
- Tuiuti
- VidigalVidigal (favela)Vidigal is a favela in Rio de Janeiro, having a view of Ipanema Beach and Ilhas Cagarras. It is located in the South Zone of Rio, between Leblon and São Conrado neighborhoods...
- Vigário GeralVigário GeralVigário Geral is a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro with a large favela. It is infamous for a massacre that happened there in 1993. The movie Favela Rising follows the development of the Afro Reggae in this neighborhood, as well as focusing on life there....
- Vila Cruzeiro
- Vila Parque da Cidade
- Vila Pereira da Silva (Pereirão)
São Paulo
- São PauloSão PauloSão Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
(for a complete list, see the article in the Portuguese WikiPedia)- HeliópolisHeliópolisHeliopolis is a district town in the district of Sacomã, in the southeast area of São Paulo, Brazil. Composed of fourteen plots, it has about 100,000 inhabitants in an area of almost one million square meters. This makes it the largest slum population in the city, but the second in area behind...
- ParaisópolisParaisópolis (São Paulo city neighbourhood)Paraisópolis is a neighborhood of São Paulo city, which is part of the Vila Andrade district, in the south zone. It is derived from the Paraisópolis favela, and has an estimated population between 80,000 and 100,000 people. It has about 20,000 households....
- Vila Nova Jaguaré
- Radar (favela)
- Vietnã
- Favela da Alba
- Buraco Quente
- Morro do Piolho
- Heliópolis
Pernambuco
- RecifeRecifeRecife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...
- Brasília Teimosa
- Vila de Deus
- Iraque
- Ilha das CobrasIlha das CobrasIlha das Cobras is an island located within Guanabara Bay in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....
- Ilha Joana Bezerra
- Alto dos Milagres
- Suvaco da Cobra
- Linha do Metro (Also known as Coque)
- OlindaOlindaOlinda is a historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, just north of Recife and south of Paulista...
- V8
- Ilha do Rato