Joá

Worth seeing in and around Joá

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
   Pedra da Gávea

   Pedra da Gávea is a monolithic mountain in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is 844 metres, making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean.

   1.2 km · mountain in Brazil · Wikipedia

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Getting to Joá

Airports

Santos Dumont (SDU), 17 km · Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 22 km

Stations

Jardim Oceânico Station, 2.6 km

• São Paulo → Joá

  5 km · quickest by road, 20 min · R$2–2.5
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• Belo Horizonte → Joá

  32 km · quickest by road, 1h · R$11–15
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• Campinas → Joá

  10 km · quickest by road, 29 min · R$4–5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Joá

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 Joá. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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