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São João de Meriti

São João de Meriti is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

São João de Meriti
São João de Meriti · Marcelo Freixo (CC BY 4.0)
The place

São João de Meriti is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Its historical name was São João do Rio Meriti. Its population was 440,962 inhabitants in 2022, with an estimated population of 466,503 in 2025. It is located in the region of Baixada Fluminense, having 34.996 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around São João de Meriti

4 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
    Deodoro Arena

    Youth Arena is an indoor arena in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The venue hosted the Basketball and Fencing events for the Modern Pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    7 km · Multi-purpose indoor arena in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Deodoro Stadium

    Deodoro Stadium was a temporary stadium at Deodoro Modern Pentathlon Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium hosted rugby sevens and modern pentathlon events during the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    7.3 km · Temporary stadium in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museu Aeroespacial

    Museu Aeroespacial is a national aviation museum located in the West Side of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the Administrative Region of Realengo. The place is known as "the Brazilian Aviation cradle".

    9.2 km · aerospace museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Estádio Giulite Coutinho

    Estádio Giulite Coutinho, also known as Estádio Édson Passos, is a multi-use stadium located in the city of Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Fluminense, America Football Club and Nova Iguaçu.

    5 km · Football stadium in Rio de Janerio, 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Praça da Matriz de São João Batista (Matriz de São João Batista Square) - A square in the São João de Meriti city center, where the Church of São João Batista is located. Igreja de São João Batista (Church of São João Batista) - A church in downtown São João de Meriti.

From Wikivoyage: São João de Meriti, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Casa do Alemão - Rodovia Presidente Dutra, km 6 - Jardim Meriti.

From Wikivoyage: São João de Meriti, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to São João de Meriti

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 12 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 25 km
Stations
Afonsos Air Force Base, 8 km · Colégio, 5.9 km · Engenheiro Rubens Paiva, 1.9 km · Acari-Fazenda Botafogo, 3.3 km · Deodoro Station, 5.8 km
  • São Paulo → São João de Meriti
    344 km · quickest by air, 4h 46m · R$360–550
  • Belo Horizonte → São João de Meriti
    326 km · quickest by air, 5h 18m · R$360–560
  • Campinas → São João de Meriti
    378 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · R$350–540
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for São João de Meriti

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 São João de Meriti. 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

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

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,149 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,436 km
  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,541 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,708 km

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

Around it

Next door to São João de Meriti

São João de Meriti is 5 km from Belford Roxo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nova Iguaçumunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil9.5 km
  • Duque de Caxiasmunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil6.5 km
  • Belford Roxomunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil5.2 km
  • Nilópolismunicipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil4.3 km
  • Mesquitamunicipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil6.3 km
  • Deodoroneighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil5.8 km