Ilha das Cobras
Ilha das Cobras is an island located within Guanabara Bay in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is east of the neighborhood Guanabara. It is home to the Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro base of the Brazilian Navy.Photo: Helder da Rocha, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Also known as: “AMRJ”, “Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro”, “Ilha da Madeira”, “Ilha das Cabras”, and “Ilha dos Monges”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ilha Fiscal and Brazilian submarine Riachuelo.
Ilha Fiscal
Islet
Photo: Marinha do Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ilha Fiscal, or Fiscal Island, is an island in Guanabara Bay, bordering the historic city center of Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil. Originally named by Europeans as Rat Island, its current name comes from the fact that the customs department has been stationed there before Guarda Fiscal, serving the port of the then-capital of the Empire during the nineteenth century.
Museum of Tomorrow
Museum
Photo: Caca Cambalhota, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museum of Tomorrow is a science museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was designed by Spanish neofuturistic architect Santiago Calatrava, and built next to the waterfront at Pier Maua.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saúde and Castelo.
Saúde
Suburb
Saúde is a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its population in 2000 was 2186. Located on the coast, just north of the historical centre in downtown Rio, west of Praça Mauá and east of Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro, it contains several notable hospitals such as Hospital dos Servidores de Estado and Hospital Pro Matre; the name Saúde means "Health" in Portuguese.
Castelo
Quarter
Castelo is a region in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but not officially recognized as a neighborhood, and officially forms part of the Centro neighborhood. It is generally considered to be located in the region between Avenida Rio Branco, the Santos Dumont Airport and Praça Quinze de Novembro.
Centro
Suburb
Photo: Thiago Souza, CC0.
Centro is a neighborhood in the Central Region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It represents the financial heart of the city, and the crux of the Central Region.
Ilha das Cobras
- Categories: island, industry, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.89649° or 22° 53′ 47″ southLongitude
-43.1713° or 43° 10′ 17″ westElevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
589R4R3H+CFOpenStreetMap ID
way 70601832OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialOpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ilha das Cobras” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ilha das Cobras”
- French: “île des Cobras”
- French: “Île des Cobras”
- Japanese: “イリャ・ダス・コブラス”
- Polish: “Ilha das Cobras”
- Portuguese: “Ilha das Cobras (Rio de Janeiro)”
- Portuguese: “Ilha das Cobras no Rio de Janeiro”
- Portuguese: “Ilha das Cobras”
- Portuguese: “Ilha das Cobres”
- Spanish: “Isla de las Cobras”
- Swedish: “Ilha das Cobras”
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Localities in the Area
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