Sugarloaf Mountain
Sugarloaf Mountain is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a peninsula at the mouth of Guanabara Bay. Rising 396 m above the harbor, the peak is named for its resemblance to the traditional shape of concentrated refined loaf sugar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 396 metres
- Description: peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Also known as: “Pão d’Azucar”, “Pão de Açúcar”, “Pão de Assucar”, “Sugar Loaf”, and “Sugarloaf”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Ccarelo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Urca Beach and Praia Vermelha.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Urca and Leme.
Urca
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Urca is a residential neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a population of nearly 7,000. Although most of the neighborhood dates from the 1920s, parts of it are much older.
Leme
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leme is an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the South Zone of the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next to Copacabana, Urca and Botafogo. The neighborhood takes its name from a nearby rock formation whose shape resembles the rudder of a ship.
Flamengo
Suburb
Photo: Alicia Nijdam, CC BY 2.0.
Flamengo is a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sugarloaf Mountain
- Categories: inselberg, cliff, natural heritage, mountain, tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Grande Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-22.94949° or 22° 56′ 58″ southLongitude
-43.15616° or 43° 9′ 22″ westElevation
396 metres (1,299 feet)Open location code
589R3R2V+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 34582421OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sugarloaf Mountain” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باو دي أسوكار”
- Basque: “Azukre-ogi mendia”
- Belarusian: “Гара Цукровая галава”
- Belarusian: “Цукровая галава”
- Bosnian: “Šećerna glava”
- Bosnian: “Šećerna Glava”
- Catalan: “Pão açucar”
- Catalan: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Cebuano: “Pão de Açúcar (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Chinese: “塔糖山”
- Croatian: “Šećerna Glava”
- Czech: “Homole cukru”
- Danish: “Pão de Acúcar”
- Danish: “Sukkertoppen”
- Dutch: “Pao de acucar”
- Dutch: “Pão de açúcar”
- Dutch: “Sugarloaf Mountain”
- Dutch: “Suikerbroodberg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل باو دى اسوكار”
- Esperanto: “Sukerpano”
- Estonian: “Pao de Acucar”
- Estonian: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Estonian: “Suhkrupeamägi”
- Finnish: “Sokeritoppa”
- French: “mont du Pain de Sucre”
- French: “Mont du Pain de Sucre”
- French: “Pain de Sucre”
- Galician: “Pao de Acucar”
- Galician: “Pao de Açucar”
- Galician: “Pão de Acucar”
- Galician: “Pão de Açucar”
- Galician: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Georgian: “შაქრის მთა”
- Georgian: “შაქრისთავა მთა”
- German: “Pao de Acucar”
- German: “Pão de Açúcar”
- German: “Zuckerhut”
- Greek: “Πάο ντε Ασούκαρ”
- Hebrew: “הר הסוכר”
- Hebrew: “חרוט הסוכר”
- Hebrew: “פאו די אסוכר”
- Hungarian: “Cukorsüveg-hegy”
- Ido: “Pano di Sukro”
- Ido: “Sukra Pano”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Sugarloaf”
- Indonesian: “Sugarloaf Mountain”
- Italian: “Monte Pan di Zucchero”
- Italian: “Pan di Zucchero”
- Italian: “Pao de Acucar”
- Italian: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Japanese: “ポン・ジ・アスーカル”
- Japanese: “ポン・ヂ・アスーカル”
- Japanese: “ポンジアスーカル”
- Japanese: “ポンヂアスーカル”
- Kirghiz: “Пан-ди-Асукар”
- Korean: “팡지아수카르산”
- Ladin: “Sugarloaf Mountain”
- Latvian: “Cukurgalvas kalns”
- Lithuanian: “Cukraus Galva”
- Lithuanian: “Cukraus Galvos kalnas”
- Luxembourgish: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Macedonian: “Шеќерна Глава”
- Malay: “Gunung Gula Jantung”
- Malayalam: “ഷുഗർലോഫ് മൗണ്ടൻ”
- Marathi: “शुगरलोफ माउंटन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sukkertoppen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sukkertoppen”
- Norwegian: “Sukkertoppen”
- Persian: “شوگر لوف”
- Polish: “Głowa Cukru”
- Polish: “Góra Cukru”
- Portuguese: “Monumento Natural dos Morros do Pão de Açúcar e da Urca”
- Portuguese: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Romanian: “Pao de Acucar”
- Romanian: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Russian: “гора Сахарная голова”
- Russian: “Пан-ди-Асукар”
- Russian: “Сахарная голова (гора)”
- Russian: “Сахарная голова (Пан-ди-Асукар)”
- Serbian: “Glava šećera”
- Serbian: “Глава шећера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šećerna Glava”
- Slovenian: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Slovenian: “Sladkorna glava”
- Slovenian: “Sladkorni stožec”
- Spanish: “Montana Pan de Azucar”
- Spanish: “Morro Pan de Azucar”
- Spanish: “Morro Pan de Azúcar”
- Spanish: “Pan de Azucar”
- Spanish: “Pan de Azúcar”
- Spanish: “Pao de Acucar”
- Spanish: “Pao de Acúcar”
- Spanish: “Pao de Açucar”
- Spanish: “Pao de Açúcar”
- Spanish: “Pão de Acucar”
- Spanish: “Pão de Acúcar”
- Spanish: “Pão de Açucar”
- Spanish: “Pão de Açúcar”
- Swedish: “Sockerberget”
- Swedish: “Sockertoppen”
- Tamil: “சர்க்கரைக்கட்டி மலை, பிரேசில்”
- Tamil: “சுகர்லோப் மலை”
- Thai: “เขาเปาจีอาซูการ์”
- Turkish: “Kesmeşeker Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Гора Цукрова голова”
- Ukrainian: “Цукрова голова”
- Venetian: “Pan de Zucchero”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Pão de Açúcar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Tinapay hin Asukar”
- Welsh: “Mynydd y Dorth Siwgr”
- Western Panjabi: “شوگرلوف پہاڑ”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Sugarloaf Mountain”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Botafogo and Catete.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Monumento Natural dos Morros do Pão de Açúcar e da Urca and Morros Pão de Açúcar, Urca e Cara de Cão.
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