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Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro

The Cidade de Deus is a Southwest Zone neighborhood of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro
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The Cidade de Deus is a Southwest Zone neighborhood of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is also known as CDD among its inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 19 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 21 km
  • São Paulo → Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro
    341 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · R$380–590
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  • Belo Horizonte → Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro
    342 km · quickest by air, 5h 36m · R$390–600
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  • Campinas → Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro
    379 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · R$370–570
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cidade de Deus, 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 Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

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Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro is 6 km from Barra da Tijuca, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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