Vila do João ("John's Village") is a favela in the neighborhood of

Maré, Rio de Janeiro Maré is a neighborhood and ''favela'' (low-income informal neighborhood) in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a grouping of several favelas, suburbs with houses, and housing complexes. With approximately 130,000 residents (2006 es ...

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 ...

. In 1982, the Brazilian government built 1,500 homes in the region. The favela is named after

João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo João is the Portuguese language, Portuguese equivalent of the given name John (given name), John. The diminutive is Joãozinho (disambiguation), Joãozinho and the Feminine (grammar), feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking c ...

, the 30th President of Brazil. It currently has about 4,000 households and a population estimated at nearly 12,000 people.

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