Gávea is an affluent
residential neighborhood located in the
South Zone of the city of
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...
, Brazil. It borders
São Conrado
São Conrado (Portuguese language, Portuguese: Help:IPA/Portuguese, /sɐ̃w̃ kõˈʁadu/) is a neighborhood in the Rio de Janeiro#South Zone, South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is nestled in between the neighborhoods of Barra da ...
,
Leblon,
Lagoa and
Jardim Botânico neighborhoods and is famous for its high concentration of artists.
PUC-Rio, as well as several schools, are located in the neighborhood. Gávea is well known because of the "Baixo Gávea" area, which is considered a
Bohemian quarter.
The first Europeans to have lived in what would become the neighborhood were the French, who came to extract
Brazilwood. On July 16, 1565, the neighbourhood was named Gávea for the first time, by
Estácio de Sá
Estácio de Sá (1520 – 20 February 1567) was a Portuguese soldier and officer. Sá travelled to the colony of Brazil on the orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. The ...
.
Etymology
The neighborhood is named Gávea (which means
topsail in
Portuguese) because of an 852 m peak (''Gávea Rock'', or
Pedra da Gávea
Pedra da Gávea is a monolithic mountain in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is , making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean. Trails on the mountain were ...
) that resembles the topsail of the
carrack
A carrack (; ; ) is a three- or four- masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably in Portugal and Spain. Evolving from the single-masted cog, the carrack was first used for Europea ...
, a sailing ship.
Sports
The
Hipódromo da Gávea is a horse racing venue located in the neighborhood.
Estádio da Gávea
The Estádio da Gávea ("''Gávea Stadium''", in English), also known as Estádio José Bastos Padilha, is a football stadium, inaugurated on September 4, 1938, in the Lagoa neighborhood, of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is ...
the home of
CR Flamengo
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; ), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian multi sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea. It was founded and named after the Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo n ...
football club, despite being named after the neighborhood, is located in
the Lagoa neighborhood. Gávea was the site of a street circuit that hosted Grand Prix racing in the 1930s and 1940s.
Notable people
*
Yasmin Brunet, model
*
Vinicius de Moraes, poet, diplomat, lyricist
References
External links
Os Bairros (the districts of Rio de Janeiro, in
Portuguese)
Neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro (city)
1565 establishments in the French colonial empire
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