Bangu, Rio de Janeiro
Bangu is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bangu is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a middle-class neighborhood. It is located in the western area of the city being one of the most populated districts, with 244,518 inhabitants [1] distributed in an area of 4570.69 ha. Located in the geographic center of the city, the neighborhood is close to Campo Grande, Senador Camará, Vila Aliança, Padre Miguel and Realengo. On November 22, 2004, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro César Maia created by decree the district Gericinó. The neighborhood was originally part of the neighborhood of Bangu, the region where the penitentiary of Bangu is located, besides Bangu dump. The region is where Gericinó was located containing the sub-district of the Aqueduct. Since 2004, the complex of Bangu and dump of Bangu, no longer belong to the neighborhood of Bangu.
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Worth seeing in and around Bangu, Rio de Janeiro
One place 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.
- 01Estádio Proletário Guilherme da Silveira
The Estádio Proletário Guilherme da Silveira Filho, but usually known as Estádio Moça Bonita is a football stadium inaugurated in 1947 in Bangu neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro, with a maximum capacity of 9,564 people. Estádio Moça Bonita is owned by Fábrica Bangu.
3.3 km · football stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bangu, Rio de Janeiro
- Airports
- Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 25 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 34 km
- São Paulo → Bangu, Rio de Janeiro333 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · R$390–610
- Belo Horizonte → Bangu, Rio de Janeiro332 km · quickest by air, 5h 47m · R$400–620
- Campinas → Bangu, Rio de Janeiro368 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · R$380–590
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bangu, Rio de Janeiro
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 Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in]] Ferries (barcas) connect neighbouring Niterói to Rio de Janeiro and arrive at Praça XV (see down), in the city centre.
- Get aroundAmong the public transportation modes, there is subway, heavy rail, light rail, bus rapid transit, local buses, microbuses, cable cars and ferry boats.
- Get aroundFerry boats depart from Santa Teresa Tram, Centro Corcovado Rack Railway, Zona Sul Sugarloaf Cable Car (Zona Sul) Buses are still the cheapest and most convenient way to get around the South Zone (Zona Sul) of the city due to the high number and frequency of lines running through the area.
- Get aroundExcept for minibuses, buses now have two doors: passengers get in through the front door and get off through the back (it was otherwise until 2001–2002).
- Get aroundBuses 511 (Ataulfo de Paiva) and 512 (Bartholomeu Mitre) are also popular as they take you to Urca for the station to take the cable car up the Sugarloaf mountain.
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Next door to Bangu, Rio de Janeiro
Bangu, Rio de Janeiro is 12 km from Nova Iguaçu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Banguneighborhood in municipality of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil2.9 km
- Santíssimoneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro3.9 km
- Vila Kennedyneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro1 km
- Gericinóneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro1.7 km
- Vila Vintémhuman settlement in Brazil3.8 km
- Vila Aliançahuman settlement in Brazil1 km