Rio de Janeiro city of God

rio de janeiro (abbreviated rio, port. rio de janeiro (january river)is a city in brazil. The administrative center of the eponymous state of Rio de Janeiro.

Population-6.7 million people (2018), it is the second largest city in the country and the fourth in South America. it forms an agglomeration with a population of more than 12.5 million people (2018). A major financial center and seaport on the continent, a scientific center.

It is located on the coast of the Guanabara Bay of the Atlantic Ocean, on a narrow plain, sandwiched on both sides by mountains and the sea. The climate is tropical[1] [2]. The area was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Gaspar de Lemos, who took the Bay of Guanabara for a river, which was called the January River. In 1531, the Portuguese fort of San Sebastian de Rio de Janeiro was founded. Since 1763-the capital of the Viceroyalty of Brazil, since 1822-the capital of the independent Brazilian Empire, in 1889-1960-the capital of the Republic of the United States of Brazil.