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Guanabara Bay

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Guanabara Bay (Baía de Guanabara) is an oceanic bay located in Southeast Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro. [1]

67 relations: Acari River (Rio de Janeiro), Artillery, Atlantic Ocean, Bay, Bay of All Saints, Boto, Brazil, Bryde's whale, Carioca River, Deforestation, Dorian van Rijsselberghe, Dry dock, Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Ecosystem, Environmental protection area (Brazil), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Ferry, Fort Coligny, France Antarctique, Freguesia (Ilha do Governador), Gaspar de Lemos, Gonçalo Coelho, Governador Island, Guanabara Bay oil spill, Guapimirim Environmental Protection Area, Hospital, Huguenots, Iguaçu River (Rio de Janeiro), Ilha das Cobras, Ilha Fiscal, Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Jardim Gramacho, Land reclamation, Landfill, Macacu River, Mangrove, Navy, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Niterói, Oil spill, Paquetá, Paquetá Island, Petrobras, Petroleum reservoir, Population decline, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport, Rio–Niterói Bridge, Santos Dumont Airport, ..., São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, SciELO, Sewage, Shore, Southeast Region, Brazil, Sugarloaf Mountain, Suruí River, Three (TV channel), Tupi language, Tupi people, Tupiniquim, Urbanization, Villegagnon Island, Waste, Water pollution, YouTube, 2016 Summer Olympics. Expand index (17 more) »

Acari River (Rio de Janeiro)

The Acari River is located in Rio de Janeiro state in southeastern Brazil.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Bay of All Saints

The Bay of All Saints (Baía de Todos os Santos), also known as All Saints' Bay and Todos os Santos Bay, is the principal bay of the Brazilian state of Bahia, to which it gave its name.

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Boto

Boto is a Portuguese name given to several types of dolphins and river dolphins native to the Amazon and the Orinoco River tributaries.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Bryde's whale

Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three.

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Carioca River

The Carioca River (Portuguese: Rio Carioca) is a river in the state of Rio de Janeiro state in southeastern Brazil.

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Deforestation

Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

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Dorian van Rijsselberghe

Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 24 November 1988 in Den Burg) is a sailor from the Netherlands.

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Dry dock

A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.

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Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro

Duque de Caxias (Duke of Caxias) is a city on Guanabara Bay and part of Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, being the third most populous in Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.

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Environmental protection area (Brazil)

An environmental protection area (Área de proteção ambiental: APA) is a type of protected area in Brazil that has some degree of human occupation, but where the primary intent is environmental protection.

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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro or University of Brazil (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ or Universidade do Brasil) is a public university in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Fort Coligny

Fort Coligny was a fortress founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1555, in what constituted the so-called France Antarctique historical episode.

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France Antarctique

France Antarctique (formerly also spelled France antartique) was a French colony south of the Equator, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which existed between 1555 and 1567, and had control over the coast from Rio de Janeiro to Cabo Frio.

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Freguesia (Ilha do Governador)

Freguesia (Ilha do Governador) is a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Gaspar de Lemos

Gaspar de Lemos (15th century) was a Portuguese explorer and captain of the supply ship of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet that discovered Brazil.

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Gonçalo Coelho

Gonçalo Coelho (fl. 1501–04) was a Portuguese explorer who belonged to a prominent family in northern Portugal.

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Governador Island

Governador Island (Ilha do Governador, in Portuguese; literally Governor's Island, in English) is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Guanabara Bay oil spill

The Guanabara Bay oil spill may be one of three oil spills in Guanabara Bay.

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Guapimirim Environmental Protection Area

Guapimirim Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental de Guapimirim) is a coastal marine protected area on Guanabara Bay in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil.

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Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Iguaçu River (Rio de Janeiro)

The Iguaçu River (Rio de Janeiro) is a river of Rio de Janeiro state in southeastern Brazil.

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Ilha das Cobras

Ilha das Cobras, one of many Snake Islands around the world, is an island located within Guanabara Bay in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Ilha Fiscal

Ilha Fiscal is an island in Guanabara Bay, bordering the historic city center of Rio de Janeiro, in southeastern Brazil.

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples in Brazil (povos indígenas no Brasil), or Indigenous Brazilians (indígenas brasileiros), comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who have inhabited what is now the country of Brazil since prior to the European contact around 1500.

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Jardim Gramacho

Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Gardens in English) is a neighborhood in the city of Duque de Caxias and the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Land reclamation

Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a landfill), is the process of creating new land from ocean, riverbeds, or lake beds.

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Landfill

A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

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Macacu River

The Macacu River (Rio Macacu) is a river of Rio de Janeiro state in southeastern Brazil.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Navy

A navy or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.

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Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon

Nicolas Durand, sieur de Villegaignon, also Villegagnon (1510 – 9 January 1571) was a Commander of the Knights of Malta, and later a French naval officer (vice-admiral of Brittany) who attempted to help the Huguenots in France escape persecution.

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Niterói

Niterói is a municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Paquetá

Paquetá is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.

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Paquetá Island

Paquetá Island (Ilha de Paquetá) is an island in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro.

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Petrobras

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. — Petrobras, more commonly known as simply Petrobras, is a semi-public Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Petroleum reservoir

A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface pool of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.

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Population decline

A population decline (or depopulation) in humans is any great reduction in a human population caused by events such as long-term demographic trends, as in sub-replacement fertility, urban decay, white flight or rural flight, or due to violence, disease, or other catastrophes.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.

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Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.

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Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport

Rio de Janeiro–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport, popularly known by its original name Galeão International Airport, is the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Rio–Niterói Bridge

President Costa e Silva Bridge, commonly known as the Rio-Niterói Bridge, is a box girder bridge crossing Guanabara Bay, in the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

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Santos Dumont Airport

Santos Dumont Airport is the second major airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro

São Gonçalo is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

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SciELO

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals.

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Sewage

Sewage (or domestic wastewater or municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced from a community of people.

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Shore

A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake.

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Southeast Region, Brazil

The Southeast Region of Brazil (Região Sudeste do Brasil) is composed by the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

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Sugarloaf Mountain

Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Suruí River

The Suruí River (Rio Suruí) is a river of Rio de Janeiro state in southeastern Brazil.

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Three (TV channel)

Three (stylized as +HR.

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Tupi language

Old Tupi or classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.

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Tupi people

The Tupi people were one of the most important indigenous peoples in Brazil.

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Tupiniquim

Tupiniquim (also Tupinã-ki, Topinaquis, Tupinaquis, Tupinanquins, Tupiniquins) are an indigenous people of Brazil, who now live in three indigenous territories (Terras Indígenas in Portuguese).

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Urbanization

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.

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Villegagnon Island

Villegagnon Island (former Serigipe Island—original Portuguese: Ilha de Villegagnon—also known in English as: Villegaignon Island, Island of Villegagnon or Island of Villegaignon) is located near the mouth of the large Guanabara Bay, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Waste

Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials.

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Water pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics (Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanabara_Bay

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