Cubango
Cubango is a neighborhood located in the northwest of the city Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is famous for hosting the samba school Acadêmicos do Cubango that competes in the Rio Carnival.Photo: Marlon.ney, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in Brazil
- Also known as: “Cubango, Niterói”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Acadêmicos do Cubango and Basílica de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora.
Acadêmicos do Cubango
Community center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 br.
Acadêmicos do Cubango is a community center.
Basílica de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora
Church
Photo: Mircezar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Basílica de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora is a church.
Estádio Caio Martins
Sports venue
Estádio Caio Martins, sometimes called Estádio Mestre Ziza, is a football stadium in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. The stadium holds 12,000 people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fonseca and Icaraí.
Fonseca
Suburb
Fonseca is a central neighborhood in the North Zone of Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one of the most populous, oldest, and strategically situated neighborhoods in the municipality, serving as the main transport axis connecting downtown Niterói to the Rio–Niterói Bridge, the neighboring municipalities of São Gonçalo and Maricá, and the Região dos Lagos coastal region.
Icaraí
Suburb
Icaraí is the name of a beach and its surrounding neighborhood in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The origin of the neighborhood dates back to the parish of São João de Carahy and later, with two large estates, the Icaraí estate and the Cavalão estate.
Engenhoca
Suburb
Niterói is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay, facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forming part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area.
Cubango
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-22.8894° or 22° 53′ 22″ southLongitude
-43.0954° or 43° 5′ 43″ westOpen location code
589R4W63+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 9895616959OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q10262079
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Portuguese—“Cubango” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Cubango”
- Portuguese: “Cubango (Niterói)”
- Portuguese: “Cubango”
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