Vila Valqueire

Vila Valqueire is a neighborhood in the Southwest Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is situated near the border of the North and Western zones, and has a good quality of life with many squares, green places and services.

Type: Suburb
Description: human settlement in Brazil
Also known as: “Valqueire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museu Aeroespacial and Portela.

Museu Aeroespacial

Museum

Photo: Lgtrapp, Public domain.

Museu Aeroespacial is a national aviation museum located in the West Side of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the Administrative Region of Realengo. The place is known as "the Brazilian Aviation cradle". Museu Aeroespacial is situated 2½ km west of Vila Valqueire.

Portela

Community center

Photo: Arleson Rezende, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela or Portela for short, is a traditional samba school, founded in 1923, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school has the highest number of wins in the top-tier Rio parade, with 22 titles in total, including the 2017 Carnival parade. Portela is situated 3 km northeast of Vila Valqueire.

Prefeito Bento Ribeiro Station

Railway station

Photo: Junius, Public domain.

Prefeito Bento Ribeiro Station is a railway station in Bento Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro. It was inaugurated on 7 November 1914, in a ceremony attended by then–President of Brazil Hermes da Fonseca and then–Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Bento Ribeiro. Prefeito Bento Ribeiro Station is situated 2½ km north of Vila Valqueire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Campo dos Afonsos and Campinho.

Campo dos Afonsos

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Campo dos Afonsos is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Campinho

Suburb

Campinho is a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This neighborhood is famous for being the birthplace of renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro.

Vila Valqueire

Categories: neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro and locality
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Grande Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude

-22.88861° or 22° 53′ 19″ south

Longitude

-43.36578° or 43° 21′ 57″ west

Elevation

37 metres (121 feet)

Open location code

589R4J6M+HM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1613993425

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

3445574

Wikidata ID

Q4011702

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Vila Valqueire” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Vila Valqueire”
Catalan: “Vila Valqueire”
Dutch: “Vila Valqueire”
Italian: “Vila Valqueire”
Portuguese: “Vila valqueire (jacarepaguá)”
Portuguese: “Vila Valqueire (Jacarepaguá)”
Portuguese: “Vila valqueire (rio de janeiro)”
Portuguese: “Vila Valqueire (Rio de Janeiro)”
Portuguese: “Vila valqueire”
Portuguese: “Vila Valqueire”
Turkish: “Vila Valqueire”
“Vila Valqueire”

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