Paciência
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Paciência is a suburb of the city of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio 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...

, in the western part of the city.

The region began to grow in 1878 with the inauguration of the Campo Grande railway station, connected to the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil
Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil
The Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil was one of the principal railways of Brazil, uniting the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais.-Origins:...

 (Brazilian Central Railway). It became easier to reach the center of the city quickly, and the region began to develop at a rapid pace. As the neighborhood of Campo Grande is near the neighbourhood of Paciência, all the people from Paciência could use this railway. Nowadays, Paciência has its own Railway called "Paciência Station".

The neighbourhood is also near of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro
Santa Cruz is an extensive, populous, mostly low-income neighborhood in the West Side of Rio de Janeiro, the most distant of the central area of the city, at about from downtown Rio. Traversed by the Central do Brasil suburban railway, it has a quite diversified landscape, with rural, commercial,...

 and Sepetiba
Sepetiba
Sepetiba is a neighborhood in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by Santa Cruz and Guaratiba, and by the Sepetiba Bay. It occupies an area of 1,162.13 ha, and has a population of 35,892 .The origin of the name Sepetiba is the Tupi, which has the word "Sipitiba" as an alternative and...

. There are around 85.000 of inhabitants. There are 25 elementary and high-schools. The neighbourhood is very famous by "Paciência Garbage" but unhappily it doesn't work out. Another very famous place is the "Jardim da Saudade Cemetery", that's a big cemetery in Rio de Janeiro.
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