Copacabana Beach
Copacabana is a Brazilian bairro located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is most prominently known for its 4 km balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world.Photo: Gustavo Facci, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Astoria Palace Hotel and Parque Estadual da Chacrinha.
Astoria Palace Hotel
Hotel
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The Astoria Palace Hotel is a hotel in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It faces the Copacabana Beach and is located just metres west of the Copacabana Palace Hotel. It is one of the newest hotels in the area and has 115 rooms.
Fort Copacabana
Fort
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Fort Copacabana is a military base at the south end of the beach that defines the district of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The base is open to the public and contains the Museu Histórico do Exército and a coastal defense fort that is the actual Fort Copacabana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Copacabana and Bairro Peixoto.
Copacabana
Suburb
Photo: Gustavo Facci, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Copacabana is a Brazilian bairro located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is most prominently known for its 4 km balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world.
Bairro Peixoto
Neighborhood
Bairro Peixoto is a region in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but it is not officially recognized as a neighborhood. Officially, it forms part of the neighborhood of Copacabana, but has distinct characteristics.
Leme
Suburb
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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.
Copacabana Beach
- Type: Beach
- Description: Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- Category: landform
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Grande Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Copacabana Beach” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Copacabana Beach”
- Czech: “Copacabana”
- French: “plage de Copacabana”
- French: “Plage de Copacabana”
- German: “Copacabana Strand”
- German: “Copacabana”
- Hungarian: “Copacabana”
- Italian: “spiaggia di Copacabana”
- Italian: “Spiaggia di Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Praia da Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Praia de Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Práia de Copacabana”
- Slovak: “Copacabana”
- Spanish: “Playa de Copacabana”
- Spanish: “Praia de Copacabana”
- Swedish: “Copacabana Beach”
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Notable Places Nearby
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