Gávea
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Gávea | ||
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Neighborhood | ||
State Rio de Janeiro (RJ) | | |
| Municipality/City | Rio de Janeiro | |
| Zone | South Zone | |
Gávea is an affluent
PUC-Rio, as well as several schools, are located in the neighborhood. Gávea is well known because of the "Baixo Gávea" area, which is considered a Bohemian quarter.[1]
The first Europeans to have lived in what would become the neighborhood were the French, who came to extract
Brazilwood. On July 16, 1565, the neighbourhood was named Gávea for the first time, by Estácio de Sá
.
Etymology
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The neighborhood is named Gávea (which means topsail in Portuguese) because of an 852 m peak (Gávea Rock, or Pedra da Gávea) that resembles the topsail of the carrack, a sailing ship.
Sports
The
CR Flamengo football club, despite being named after the neighborhood, is located in the Lagoa
neighborhood. Gávea was the site of a street circuit that hosted Grand Prix racing in the 1930s and 1940s.
Notable people
- Yasmin Brunet, model
References
- ^ "Ky体育中国有限公司官网". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20.
- Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Portuguese-language Wikipedia article (retrieved on January 2, 2006).
External links
- Os Bairros (the districts of Rio de Janeiro, in Portuguese)
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