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Corcovado

Corcovado is a mountain in central , . It is a 710-metre granite peak located in the Tijuca Forest, a national park. Corcovado hill lies just west of the city center but is wholly within the city limits and visible from great distances.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 710 metres
  • Description: mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known for the Christ Statue
  • Also known as: “Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro)”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Christ the Redeemer and Christ the Redeemer.

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is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in , , created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silvestre and Humaitá.

Neighborhood
is a region of , but not officially recognized as a neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a residential district in the of , . It is situated between the foot of Corcovado Mountain and the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon.

Suburb
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is an affluent residential neighborhood in , located around the . It borders the neighborhoods of , , , , , and .

Corcovado

Latitude
-22.95195° or 22° 57′ 7″ south
Longitude
-43.21058° or 43° 12′ 38″ west
Elevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)
Open location code
589R2QXQ+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1551149888
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3465534
Wiki­data ID
Q506938
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Corcovado” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل كوركوفادو”
  • Arabic: “كوركوفادو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Korkovado”
  • Basque: “Corcovado”
  • Belarusian: “Каркаваду”
  • Bosnian: “Corcovado”
  • Breton: “Corcovado”
  • Bulgarian: “Корковадо”
  • Cebuano: “Corcovado”
  • Chinese: “驼背山”
  • Croatian: “Corcovado”
  • Czech: “Corcovado”
  • Dutch: “Corcovado”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كوركوفادو”
  • Esperanto: “Korkovado (monto)”
  • Esperanto: “Korkovado”
  • Estonian: “Corcovado”
  • Finnish: “Corcovado”
  • French: “Corcovado”
  • Georgian: “კორკოვადო”
  • German: “Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • German: “Corcovado”
  • Hausa: “Corcovado”
  • Hebrew: “הר קורקובדו”
  • Hungarian: “Corcovado-hegy”
  • Irish: “Corcovado”
  • Italian: “Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • Italian: “Corcovado”
  • Italian: “Cristo Redentor (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • Italian: “Monte Cristo Redentor”
  • Japanese: “コルコヴァド”
  • Japanese: “コルコバード”
  • Japanese: “コルコバードの丘”
  • Korean: “코르코바도”
  • Korean: “코르코바두”
  • Ladin: “Corcovado”
  • Latvian: “Korkovadu”
  • Lithuanian: “Korkovadas”
  • Lithuanian: “Korkovado kalnas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Corcovado”
  • Maltese: “Corcovado”
  • Marathi: “कॉर्कोवाडो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Corcovado”
  • Norwegian: “Corcovado”
  • Persian: “کورکووادو”
  • Polish: “Corcovado”
  • Portuguese: “Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • Portuguese: “Corcovado”
  • Portuguese: “Morro do Corcovado (Brasil)”
  • Portuguese: “Morro do Corcovado”
  • Portuguese: “Morro do Cristo Redentor (Brasil)”
  • Portuguese: “Pico do Corcovado”
  • Romanian: “Corcovado”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Corcovado”
  • Russian: “Корковадо”
  • Russian: “Корковаду”
  • Serbian: “Corcovado”
  • Serbian: “Korkovado”
  • Serbian: “Корковадо”
  • Serbian: “Корковаду”
  • Slovenian: “Corcovado”
  • Spanish: “Cerro del Corcovado”
  • Spanish: “Corcovado (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • Spanish: “Cristo del Corcovado”
  • Spanish: “Cristo Redentor (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • Swedish: “Corcovado”
  • Turkish: “Corcovado”
  • Ukrainian: “Корковадо”
  • Ukrainian: “Корковаду”
  • Venetian: “Corcovado”

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