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Cachambi

Cachambi is a middle-class and lower-middle-class neighborhood of the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cachambi
Cachambi · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Cachambi is a middle-class and lower-middle-class neighborhood of the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has an HDI of 0.900.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cachambi

5 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.

    900 m · shopping centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Manguinhos Library Park

    Manguinhos Library Park is a library and park complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The library opened on April 29, 2010.

    2.7 km · library and park complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museu da Vida Fiocruz

    The Museum of Life is located at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    3.6 km · museum in Brazil · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rio de Janeiro Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology

    The Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, or in full: Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro is an institution that offers high and professional educations by having a pluricurricular form. It is a multicampi institution, specialising with professional and technological education in different areas of knowledge.

    3.9 km · university · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.3 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 Cachambi

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 9 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 12 km
Stations
Engenho da Rainha, 3.4 km · Maria da Graça, 1.8 km · Triagem, 3.2 km · Del Castilho, 1.3 km · Engenho Novo Station, 1.5 km
  • São Paulo → Cachambi
    351 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · R$350–530
  • Belo Horizonte → Cachambi
    337 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · R$350–540
  • Campinas → Cachambi
    388 km · quickest by air, 4h 27m · R$340–520
  • 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 Cachambi

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 Cachambi. 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

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

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,153 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,447 km
  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,550 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,720 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cachambi

Cachambi is 10 km from Rio de Janeiro, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.