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Lago Norte

Lago Norte is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil.

Lago Norte
Lago Norte · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lago Norte is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. Located to the north side of Paranoá Lake, it is bordered by Brasília, Sobradinho II, and Sobradinho to the north, Itapoã and Paranoá to the east. Lago Norte shares a maritime border with Lago Sul, Paranoá, and Brasília through the Paranoá Lake. It completely surrounds the administrative region of Varjão. Most of its inhabited area is located on a peninsula of Lake Paranoá. Lago Norte is home to the Brasília Digital TV Tower. Lago Norte was founded on January 10, 1960, receiving the status of administrative region, according to Law 641, of January 10, 1994. In a 2010 report, its population was 41,627. Its current administrator is Marcelo Ferreira da Silva.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lago Norte

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.

  1. 01
    University of Brasília

    The University of Brasília is a federal public university in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. It was founded in 1962 and has since consistently been named among the top five Brazilian universities and the top fifteen universities in South America by Times Higher Education.

    2.6 km · public, federal university in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brasilia Brazil Temple

    The Brasília Brazil Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brasília, Brazil. The intent to build the temple was announced on April 2, 2017, by church president Thomas S. Monson, during general conference.

    2.5 km · LDS Church temple in Brasilia, 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 Lago Norte

Airports
Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek (BSB), 16 km · Santa Genoveva (GYN), 176 km
  • Goiânia → Lago Norte
    182 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · R$60–80
  • Belo Horizonte → Lago Norte
    623 km · quickest by air, 5h 45m · R$440–680
  • São Paulo → Lago Norte
    878 km · quickest by air, 5h 36m · R$500–790
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Lago Norte

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundRent a car, ride the buses, take a cab, hitchhike, but whatever you do, don't plan on getting around Brasilia on foot.

From Wikivoyage: Brasilia, 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

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

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    998 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,072 km
  4. 04
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,120 km
  5. 05
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,276 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lago Norte

Lago Norte is 9 km from Brasília, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Varjãoadministrative region in the Federal District in Brazil3.8 km