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    Rio Trivia: Geography & History Football The Olympic Games Favelas People

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    Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, known for its beautiful setting on Guanabara Bay and as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The document provides facts about Rio's history, geography, culture, and football, noting that it was the capital of Portugal from 1808 to 1822 and of Brazil until 1960. It also discusses the city's ethnic diversity and communities, famous residents like Paulo Coelho, and sports like samba and football played at the Maracanã Stadium.

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    Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, known for its beautiful setting on Guanabara Bay and as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The document provides facts about Rio's history, geography, culture, and football, noting that it was the capital of Portugal from 1808 to 1822 and of Brazil until 1960. It also discusses the city's ethnic diversity and communities, famous residents like Paulo Coelho, and sports like samba and football played at the Maracanã Stadium.

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    Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, known for its beautiful setting on Guanabara Bay and as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The document provides facts about Rio's history, geography, culture, and football, noting that it was the capital of Portugal from 1808 to 1822 and of Brazil until 1960. It also discusses the city's ethnic diversity and communities, famous residents like Paulo Coelho, and sports like samba and football played at the Maracanã Stadium.

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    Rio Trivia: Geography & History Football The Olympic Games Favelas People

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    Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, known for its beautiful setting on Guanabara Bay and as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The document provides facts about Rio's history, geography, culture, and football, noting that it was the capital of Portugal from 1808 to 1822 and of Brazil until 1960. It also discusses the city's ethnic diversity and communities, famous residents like Paulo Coelho, and sports like samba and football played at the Maracanã Stadium.

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    How much do you know about Rio? Read these fascinating facts.

    Rio Trivia
    People Geography & Football The Olympic

    ROCKING RIO
    History Games
    Favelas

    People from Rio call Football (soccer) is the


    themselves “Cariocas”, Rio de Janeiro, on most popular sport
    and they come from Like most major the western shore of in Brazil, and Rio has
    many different ethnic cities, Rio is home Guanabara Bay, is the five famous clubs,
    backgrounds. The to rich and poor. second biggest city in including Flamengo,
    original indigenous But Rio’s infamous Brazil after Sao Paulo, the team with the The Rio Olympics were
    people of the Rio slums, the“favelas”, are and the third biggest largest number of held between 5th and
    area have now largely some of the poorest city in South America, supporters in the world 21st August 2016. The
    integrated with the neighbourhoods after Sao Paulo and (according to FIFA). Big city’s slogan for the bid
    Europeans (mostly on earth. They have Buenos Aires. The city matches are played at was “Live your passion”,
    Portuguese). Many appeared in films such is usually just called the famous Maracanã reflecting Brazilian
    more Portuguese as City of God, Bus 174, Rio, although it is also Stadium (“Estadio do people’s reputation for
    immigrated to Rio in and Elite Squad and are nicknamed “A Cidade Maracanã”), one of enthusiastic celebrations
    the 20th century and associated with drug Maravilhosa” (“The the largest football and festivals.
    the city has the largest trafficking and violent Marvellous City”). grounds in the world.
    Portuguese community crime. National and Guanabara Bay was The World Cup final
    outside of Lisbon. Half local governments first discovered by was played there
    the city’s population is of are working hard to Europeans on 1st in 1950 when over
    African origin. There are improve conditions. January 1502 when a 200,000 fans packed
    also large Jewish, Arab, Nevertheless, the Portuguese expedition in to watch the
    Italian, Spanish and “favelas” are not areas led by Gaspar de Lemos unthinkable: Brazil
    German communities, for tourists to visit. sailed into the bay. The losing the World Cup
    as well as people from explorers thought the in Brazil! Unfortunately,
    other parts of Brazil, of Music bay was the mouth of Brazil also failed to win
    course. a big river, which they when it hosted the
    named Rio de Janeiro 2014 World Cup. This
    Famous (River January) in honour time, Germany were
    ”Cariocas” of the date. The city itself the champions; and
    was formally founded Brazil came fourth in
    on 1st March 1565. In the competition.
    1763, the city was made Next time!
    Samba is a blend of the colonial capital of
    African music and the Portuguese Empire,
    dance, brought over after gold was found
    Paulo Coelho by slaves in the 17th nearby. Then in 1808,
    There are many famous and 18th centuries, the Portuguese royal
    Cariocas. Footballers and European musical family moved to the
    Ronaldo, Zico, and traditions introduced city to escape from GLOSSARY
    an escalator n
    Carlos Alberto are just by the Portuguese. Napoleon’s invasion of a moving stairway consisting of
    three of many great It is now regarded as Portugal, making Rio the steps attached to a continuously
    circulating belt
    soccer players from an important symbol only European capital an elevator n
    an enclosed box in a building that
    the city. Other famous of Brazilian national not in Europe. Rio then takes you up to another floor/level. A
    people include racing identity. If you want became the capital of “lift” in British English
    a cable car n
    driver Nelson Piquet, to find out more Brazil when the country a cabin suspended from and moved
    creator of Bossa Nova about Samba culture, became independent by an overhead wire in a mountain
    area
    music Tom Jobim, and you should go to the in 1822. It remained the a track n
    a path or route that is marked. It is
    writer Paulo Coelho. recently-opened City capital until 1960 when often for walkers
    of Samba (Cidade do Brasilia was founded. a waterfall n
    an area in a river where water falls
    Samba), a 114,000 over rocks from one level to another
    to gather vb
    square-metre arts centre if people “gather” in an area, they all
    in the port district of go to or meet in that area
    a venue n
    Gamboa. a very large place (often a sports
    stadium) for concerts, etc.
    first and foremost exp
    most importantly

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