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Rio de Janeiro (for a complete list, see the Portuguese WikiPedia article: Lista de favelas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro) Babilônia. Benjamin Constant. Cajueiro. Cantagalo–Pavão–Pavãozinho. Chácara do Céu. Chapéu Mangueira. Cidade de Deus. Complexo do Lins.
Favela (Portuguese: [fɐˈvɛlɐ]) is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil. The term, which means slum or ghetto , was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to ...
List of slums. A Villa Miseria in Argentina. A favela in Brazil. This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums ...
Rocinha. Rocinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁɔˈsĩɲɐ], little farm) is a favela in Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro 's South Zone between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one kilometre from a nearby beach. Most of the favela is on a very steep ...
Heliópolis. Coordinates: 23°36′38″S 46°35′33″W. Housing estates in the neighbourhood, seen in São Caetano do Sul. Heliópolis is a favela in the Sacomã district of São Paulo. It has around 200,000 inhabitants and has developed into a serviced neighbourhood from its beginnings as a squatted settlement in the 1970s.
A Brazilian AAV on a street in the Complexo do Alemão, November 2010 Police entering the Complexo do Alemão during the 2010 Rio de Janeiro Security Crisis. On November 25, 2010, the Special Ops Battalion together with the Brazilian Navy, invaded the Vila Cruzeiro favela, in Rio de Janeiro. The majority of drug traffickers eventually fled to ...
In literature and film. Known in English as City of God, Cidade de Deus is the eponymous name of a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives of petty crime during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the favela where Lins grew up. An English translation by Alison Entrekin was published in 2006.
Funk carioca (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfɐ̃k (i) kɐɾiˈɔkɐ, - kaɾ-]), also known as favela funk, in other parts of the world as baile funk and Brazilian funk, or even simply funk, is a hip hop -influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, blending the rap subgenres of Miami bass and gangsta rap. [1][2] Despite its name, funk ...