Fort Copacabana
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Joalpe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Joalpe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Arpoador and Igreja da Ressurreição, Rio de Janeiro.
Arpoador
Beach
Photo: Donatas Dabravolskas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arpoador is a region located on the southern zone of the city Rio de Janeiro, in a small peninsula between Ipanema and Copacabana. Part of its territory belongs to the neighbourhood of Ipanema, and part to Copacabana. Arpoador is situated 1 km southwest of Fort Copacabana.
Igreja da Ressurreição, Rio de Janeiro
Church
Photo: Peter17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Igreja da Ressurreição, Rio de Janeiro is a church, which is situated 730 metres west of Fort Copacabana.
General Osório Square
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
General Osório Square is a square in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The square is bordered to the north by Rua Visconde de Pirajá, the main commercial street in Ipanema; Rua Jangadeiros to the east; Rua Prudente de Morais to the south, which extends west from the square; and the small Rua Teixeira de Melo to the west. General Osório Square is situated 1¼ km west of Fort Copacabana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Copacabana and Ipanema.
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.
Ipanema
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ipanema is a neighbourhood located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between Leblon and Arpoador. The beach at Ipanema became known internationally with the popularity of the bossa nova song, "The Girl from Ipanema", written by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes.
Zona Sul
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The South Zone of Rio de Janeiro is where most tourists usually stay. Lots of hotels, from the fancy 5-stars like Copacabana Palace to hostels, are to be found in the neighborhoods of Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon, which also have three famous beaches, the latter two just being separated by the canal that drains the Lagoa into the sea.
Fort Copacabana
- Type: Fort
- Description: military building in Rio de Janeiro
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Grande Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-22.98585° or 22° 59′ 9″ southLongitude
-43.18474° or 43° 11′ 5″ westInception
1914Open location code
589R2R78+M4OpenStreetMap ID
way 371926003OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortGeoNames ID
13013193Wikidata ID
Q5470982
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fort Copacabana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حصن كوباكابانا”
- Catalan: “Fort de Copacabana”
- Chinese: “科帕卡瓦納砲台”
- Croatian: “Tvrđava Copacabana”
- Dutch: “Fort Copacabana”
- Dutch: “Forte de Copacabana”
- French: “fort Copacabana”
- French: “Fort de Copacabana”
- German: “Forte de Copacabana”
- Hebrew: “מבצר קופקבנה”
- Italian: “Forte di Copacabana”
- Japanese: “コパカバーナ要塞”
- Lithuanian: “Kopakabanos fortas”
- Macedonian: “Тврдина Копакабана”
- Macedonian: “Форт Копакабана”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Copacabana-fortet”
- Norwegian: “Copacabana-fortet”
- Persian: “دژ کوپاکابانا”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Forte de copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Forte de Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “MHEx”
- Portuguese: “MHEx/FC”
- Portuguese: “Museu Histórico do Exército / Forte de Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Museu Histórico do Exército e Forte de Copacabana”
- Portuguese: “Museu histórico do exército”
- Portuguese: “Museu Histórico do Exército”
- Romanian: “Fortul Copacabana”
- Russian: “Форт Копакабана”
- Slovenian: “Trdnjava Copacabana”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de Copacabana”
- Swedish: “Copacabanafortet”
- Turkish: “Copacabana Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Форт Копакабана”
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