It is in this region that the majority of the city's balneario beaches and hotels are located, as are the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, much of the Tijuca National Park, the Sugarloaf Mountain, with its cable car, the Corcovado hill, where the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands, and other natural wonders and tourist attractions. It is the richest region of the city and is visited by thousands of tourists from different parts of the world throughout the year.
south, zone, janeiro, south, zone, portuguese, zona, portuguese, pronunciation, ˈzonɐ, ˈsuw, area, city, janeiro, situated, between, tijuca, massif, atlantic, ocean, guanabara, most, made, neighborhoods, along, atlantic, coastline, such, são, conrado, vidigal,. The South Zone Portuguese Zona Sul Portuguese pronunciation ˈzonɐ ˈsuw is an area of the city of Rio de Janeiro situated between the Tijuca Massif the Atlantic Ocean and Guanabara Bay Most of it is made up of neighborhoods along the Atlantic coastline such as Sao Conrado Vidigal Leblon Ipanema Copacabana and Leme Location of the South Zone in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro It also includes the neighborhoods of Urca Botafogo Flamengo and Gloria on Guanabara Bay and Santa Teresa Catete Laranjeiras Cosme Velho Humaita Lagoa Jardim Botanico and Gavea bordering on Tijuca Forest to the West or North Zona Sul includes a number of favelas such as Rocinha close to Sao Conrado Vidigal close to Leblon Cantagalo and Ladeira dos Tabajaras in Copacabana and Morro Dona Marta in Botafogo It is in this region that the majority of the city s balneario beaches and hotels are located as are the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon much of the Tijuca National Park the Sugarloaf Mountain with its cable car the Corcovado hill where the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands and other natural wonders and tourist attractions It is the richest region of the city and is visited by thousands of tourists from different parts of the world throughout the year List of neighborhoods Edit Neighborhoods of the South Zone Arpoador Botafogo Catete Copacabana Cosme Velho Flamengo Gavea Gloria Humaita Ipanema Jardim Botanico Lagoa Laranjeiras Leblon Leme Santa Teresa Sao Conrado UrcaReferences EditThis article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources South Zone Rio de Janeiro news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Rio de Janeiro Zona Sul Coordinates 22 58 27 S 43 11 58 W 22 974199 S 43 199444 W 22 974199 43 199444 South Zone This Rio de Janeiro state Brazil location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title South Zone Rio de Janeiro amp oldid 1102694950, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
