Barra da Tijuca

Barra da Tijuca, usually known as just Barra, is an upper-middle class neighborhood in the Southwest Zone of , , located in the western portion of the city on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jacarepaguá–Roberto Marinho Airport and Cidade das Artes.

Aerodrome
Photo: Diego Baravelli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an in the neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca, , . Following extensive renovation in 2008 the airport was renamed after Roberto Pisani Marinho, a journalist and former president of Globo Network.

Arts center
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The is a cultural complex located in Barra da Tijuca in the Southwest Zone of , Brazil, which was originally planned to open in 2004, with the name of Cidade da Música.

Park
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is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cidade de Deus and Jacarepaguá.

Suburb
Photo: Junius, Public domain.
The is a neighborhood of the city of . It is also known as CDD among its inhabitants. The neighborhood was founded in 1960, planned and executed by the government of Guanabara State as part of the policy to systematically remove slums from the center of Rio de Janeiro and resettle their inhabitants in the suburbs. is situated 6 km north of Barra da Tijuca.

Suburb
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, with a land area of 29.27 square miles, is a neighborhood situated in the of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2010, it had a population of 157,326. is situated 5 km north of Barra da Tijuca.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the of , . is situated 5 km north of Barra da Tijuca.

Barra da Tijuca

Latitude
-22.9997° or 22° 59′ 59″ south
Longitude
-43.366° or 43° 21′ 58″ west
Population
136,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
RRJ
Open location code
589R2J2M+4J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1613993046
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7290718
Wiki­data ID
Q808789
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Barra da Tijuca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بارا دا تيجوكا”
  • Armenian: “Բառա դե Տիժուկա”
  • Asturian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Basque: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Bosnian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Catalan: “Barra da Tijuca (Rio de Janeiro)”
  • Catalan: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Cebuano: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Chinese: “巴拉达蒂茹卡”
  • Croatian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Czech: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Dutch: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Esperanto: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • French: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • German: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Greek: “Μπάρα ντα Τιζούκα”
  • Hebrew: “בארה דה טיז’וקה”
  • Hungarian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Indonesian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Italian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Japanese: “バハ・ダ・チジューカ”
  • Korean: “키키”
  • Lithuanian: “Bara da Tižuka”
  • Lithuanian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Marathi: “बरा दा तिजुका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Norwegian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Persian: “بارا دا تیجوکا”
  • Polish: “Kiki”
  • Portuguese: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Portuguese: “Barra Golden Green”
  • Portuguese: “Barra”
  • Portuguese: “Barrista”
  • Portuguese: “Barristas”
  • Romanian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Russian: “Бара Да Тижука”
  • Serbian: “Бара да Тижука”
  • Slovenian: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Spanish: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Swedish: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Tamil: “பாரா ட இசூக்கா”
  • Turkish: “Barra da Tijuca”
  • Urdu: “بارا دا تیژوکا”
  • Yue Chinese: “Kiki”

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