Caju Cemetery
The São Francisco Xavier Cemetery is the largest of the many necropolises that make up the group popularly known as the Caju Cemetery, located in the Caju neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro's North Zone. It is the largest cemetery in the state of Rio de Janeiro, covering 441,000 m², and one of the largest in Brazil. The other cemeteries that make up the group of necropolises are the Cemetery of the Third Order of Carmel, the Cemetery of the Venerable Third Order of St. Francis of Penance and the Jewish Communal Cemetery of Caju. It was officially founded on 18 October 1851, in the same place where a slave cemetery had existed since 1839, and has been administered by the Concessionária Reviver since 2015, after more than 150 years of administration by the Santa Casa de Misericórdia oly House of Mercy History The cemetery originally was located near São Cristóvão beach, replaced due to several landfills. It was the former ''Campo da Misericórdia'' (''Field of Mercy''), used s ...
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Caju, Rio De Janeiro
Caju is a working-class district of the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... Prior to the current region Caju belonged to the historic district of São Cristóvão. References Neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro (city) Working class in South America Social class in Brazil {{RiodeJaneiro-geo-stub ...
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