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Belford Roxo

Belford Roxo is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Belford Roxo
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The place

Belford Roxo is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a part of the metropolitan region of the city of Rio de Janeiro and was created in 1990.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Belford Roxo

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.

  1. 01
    Estádio Giulite Coutinho

    Estádio Giulite Coutinho, also known as Estádio Édson Passos, is a multi-use stadium located in the city of Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Fluminense, America Football Club and Nova Iguaçu.

    4.1 km · Football stadium in Rio de Janerio, 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Praça de Areia Branca (Areia Branca Square). The main square of the neighborhood of Areia Branca. Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição). A church in the Belford Roxo city center. Igreja de São Simão (Church of São Simão). A church in the neighborhood of Lote XV, close to the limit with Duque de Caxias. Parque Industrial da Bayer (Bayer Industrial Park).

From Wikivoyage: Belford Roxo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Vale do Ipê Country Club - Estrada Manoel de Sá, 118 - Vale do Ipê. - The country club offers 50 rooms equipped with flat-screen TV's with satellite channels, multi-channel television and balconies for a pleasant stay in Greater Rio. In the club, it is possible to go hiking, trekking, play games, swimming in a large water park, and play various sports.

From Wikivoyage: Belford Roxo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Pizzaria Tarantela - Avenida Joaquim da Costa Lima, 2480 - Vilar Novo, Graças.

From Wikivoyage: Belford Roxo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Belford Roxo

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 16 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 29 km
Stations
Acari-Fazenda Botafogo, 8.4 km · Engenheiro Rubens Paiva, 7.1 km
  • São Paulo → Belford Roxo
    342 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · R$370–570
  • Belo Horizonte → Belford Roxo
    321 km · quickest by air, 5h 28m · R$370–580
  • Campinas → Belford Roxo
    376 km · quickest by air, 4h 46m · R$360–560
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Belford Roxo

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 Belford Roxo. 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.

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

Around it

Next door to Belford Roxo

Belford Roxo is 5 km from São João de Meriti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nova Iguaçumunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil5.4 km
  • Duque de Caxiasmunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil9.2 km
  • São João de Meritimunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil5.2 km
  • Nilópolismunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil5.1 km
  • Mesquitamunicipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil3.7 km
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