Guadalupe is a neighborhood located in the North Zone of

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. It is surrounded by Barros Filho,

Honório Gurgel Honório Gurgel is a neighborhood Lower-class area located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It borders the Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods of Rocha Miranda, Marechal Hermes, Bento Ribeiro, Coelho Neto, Barros Filho, and Guanabara. Hi ...

Marechal Hermes Marechal Hermes is a planned working-class neighborhood located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded on May 1, 1913. Surrounding neighborhoods include Bento Ribeiro, Campo dos Afonsos, Deodoro and Guadalupe. It takes its name ...

, Deodoro, Ricardo de Albuquerque, Costa Barros and Anchieta. Its designation is a

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe ( es, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe ( es, Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions, which are believed t ...

which main

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in Rio de Janeiro is located in this neighbourhood. The neighbourhood was built as a project of former Casa Popular

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and it was inaugurated by

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. Are also notable in the neighbourhood the "Igloos of Guadalupe", a set of

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s in

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, looking like

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s, and built in the late 1940s on Calama

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. In Guadalupe, there are many

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, courses,

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, the Terra

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, the Augusto Amaral Peixoto clinic and many city-owned and private

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s. Guadalupe is crossed by the Avenida Brasil, which links downtown area to the West Zone of the city. By this reason, many bus lines that cross the city are available in Guadalupe. Other notable pathways within the neighbourhood are Marcos de Macedo street, Camboatá road, Francisco Portela street and Luís Coutinho Cavalcanti street. The main

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located in Guadalupe are: Pimaco (owned by

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), Perdigão factory, Casa & Video (

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and

), Atacadão hypermarket, Prezunic hypermarket, Cacau Show, C&A,

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and

O Boticário O Boticário () is the second biggest Brazilian cosmetic company. It has 4,070 stores in Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Guyana Bolivia, Peru, United States, Paraguay, Japan, France, Angola, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. O Boticário is the lar ...

. There is also a branch of Fisk Language Course, the Labormed (

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), the Guadalupe Shopping (

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, Bradesco bank, Estácio de Sá University, Ponto Cine (

), Pio XII school and others. In December 2009, Saphyr

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announced the plan of building a major

in the place previously occupied by the former

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Melhoral. The mall openened on November 24, 2011, and it is named Shopping Jardim Guadalupe.

Data

* Land area (2003): 382.00

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s * Population (2000): 46,325 people * Number of homes (2000): 13,959 units Guadalupe belongs to XXII Administrative Region (Anchieta) of Rio de Janeiro. The neighborhoods that compound this Administrative Region are: Anchieta, Guadalupe, Parque Anchieta and Ricardo de Albuquerque. The designation Guadalupe has been used informally for many decades but only on July 23, 1981, the neighbourhood was officially created, by means of a municipal

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References

External links

Dados dos bairros cariocas
{{Authority control Neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro (city)