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Abolição

Abolição (Abolition) is a middle-class neighborhood of the North Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abolição
Abolição · Joseph Davis
The place

Abolição (Abolition) is a middle-class neighborhood of the North Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Abolição

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    NorteShopping RJ

    Norte Shopping is the largest shopping center in the city of Rio de Janeiro and the second largest in Brazil. Established in 1986, the complex has undergone several major expansions.

    1.7 km · shopping centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gama Filho University

    Universidade Gama Filho was a private university in Brazil that operated from 1939 to 2014. It was located in the neighborhood of Piedade, in the northern part of Rio de Janeiro.

    1 km · university in Brazil · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Abolição

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 10 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 14 km
Stations
Inhaúma, 2.2 km · Engenho da Rainha, 2.2 km · Del Castilho, 2.9 km · Thomáz Coelho, 2.9 km · Engenho Novo Station, 3.4 km
  • São Paulo → Abolição
    1 km · quickest by road, 5 min · R$0.5
  • Belo Horizonte → Abolição
    14 km · quickest by road, 38 min · R$4.5–6
  • Campinas → Abolição
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · R$23–31
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Abolição

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Abolição. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTwo lines operating TransOeste and TransCarioca, Planned: TransOlimpica Teleférico A is a cable car service.

From Wikivoyage: Rio de Janeiro/Zona Norte, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    94 km
  2. 02
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,154 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,444 km
  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,548 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,718 km

If you know how people move in Abolição – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Abolição

Abolição is 11 km from Duque de Caxias, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.