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Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
| Site number: | 1100 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 18th century - | |
| Date of Inscription: | 2012 | |
| Location: | South America, Brazil | |
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Other languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Aragonese, Armenian, Asturianu, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian-Tarashkyevich, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish (Suomi), Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian-Bokmai, Occitan, Ossetic, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romana, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalong, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray-Waray, Welsh
| Description: | The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of the city: from the highest points of the Tijuca National Park’s mountains down to the sea. They also include the Botanical Gardens, established in 1808, Corcovado Mountain with its celebrated statue of Christ, and the hills around Guanabara Bay, including the extensive designed landscapes along Copacabana Bay which have contributed to the outdoor living culture of this spectacular city. Rio de Janeiro is also recognized for the artistic inspiration it has provided to musicians, landscapers and urbanists. --WHMNet's description is from WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| 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 largest in the Americas, and 26th in the world. Rio de Janeiro has become a home of a World Heritage Site named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea," as granted by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 in the category Cultural Landscape. The decision was taken by the committee of the assets of the organization. The announcement came during a meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1815 during the Portuguese colonial era, 1815 to 1821 as the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, and 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation. Rio is nicknamed the Cidade Maravilhosa or "Marvelous City." --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1100 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1100). 2. Wikipedia. | |