Engenho de Dentro
Engenho de Dentro is a middle-class and lower-middle-class neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Engenho de Dentro is a middle-class and lower-middle-class neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It borders the neighbourhoods of Abolição, Água Santa, Cachambi, Encantado, Inhaúma, Lins de Vasconcelos, Méier, Pilares and Todos os Santos. The Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium, home stadium of Botafogo F.R. and one of the venues of the 2007 Pan American Games, 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, is situated in Engenho de Dentro.
The Olímpica de Engenho de Dentro station is the SuperVia train station in Rio de Janeiro that serves this neighborhood. From Central do Brasil station, passengers can reach Engenho de Dentro neighbourhood and Nilton Santos stadium in 25 minutes taking the Japeri, Santa Cruz or Deodoro lines, leaving the train in Olímpica de Engenho de Dentro station.
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Worth seeing in and around Engenho de Dentro
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.
- 01NorteShopping 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.
2.1 km · shopping centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia - 02Gama 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.
1.6 km · university in Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Engenho de Dentro
- Airports
- Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 11 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 14 km
- Stations
- Inhaúma, 3.3 km · Engenho da Rainha, 3.8 km · Del Castilho, 3.5 km · Sampaio Station, 3.4 km · Engenho Novo Station, 2.6 km
- São Paulo → Engenho de Dentro349 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · R$350–540
- Belo Horizonte → Engenho de Dentro338 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · R$360–550
- Campinas → Engenho de Dentro386 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · R$340–530
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Engenho de Dentro
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 Engenho de Dentro. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundTwo lines operating TransOeste and TransCarioca, Planned: TransOlimpica Teleférico A is a cable car service.
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Next door to Engenho de Dentro
Engenho de Dentro is 12 km from Rio de Janeiro, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jacarezinhoneighborhood in municipality of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil4 km
- Aboliçãoneighborhood of Rio de Janeiro1.6 km
- Cachambineighborhood of Rio de Janeiro2.5 km
- Quintino Bocaiuvaneighborhood of Rio de Janeiro3.1 km
- Méierneighborhood of Rio de Janeiro1.4 km
- Água Santaneighborhood of Rio de Janeiro1.9 km