rio de janeiro is
home to an estimated
1000 favelas in the
metropolitan area alone - we provide information on
the communities likely to be of interest to visitors, with the
eight listed at the bottom of this page described in
most detail.
with the aim of giving
a better perspective, on this
link we include a more
comprehensive list
of hundreds of
communities in rio. in parenthesis next to each favela is
the neighborhood or administrative area of the city in which
the favela is located.