Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Brazil
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Rio de Janeiro in the State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
La ciudad de Rio de Janeiro en el estado de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 26 states of Brazil.
It is located in the Brazilian geopolitical region of the Southeast and its boundaries, all of them with other Brazilian states in the Southeast region (Rio de Janeiro is the only state in the Southeast to share borders exclusively with other states in the same macroregion), are with Minas Gerais (N and NW), Espírito Santo (NE) and São Paulo (SW), and plus its shore line, in the Atlantic Ocean, to its East and South.
Rio de Janeiro has an area of 43,653 km² and its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese colony as of 1763 (the first capital being Salvador da Bahia), capital of the United Kingdom of Brazil, Portugal and Algarves as of 1806 and the capital of independent Brazil from 1822 to 1960.
The state’s most populous cities are Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, Niterói, Duque de Caxias, São Gonçalo, São João de Meriti, Campos dos Goytacazes, Petrópolis and Volta Redonda.
Its principal rivers are the Guandu River, the Piraí, the Paraíba do Sul, the Macaé and the Muriaé. Its climate is considered to be tropical.
In the Brazilian flag, the state is represented by the Beta star in the Southern Cross (β = Mimosa).
Río de Janeiro (Lit. Río de Enero) es un estado brasileño localizado en la parte este de la región Sudeste. Tiene como límites: Minas Gerais (N y NO), Espírito Santo (NE), Océano Atlántico (L y S), y São Paulo (SO). Ocupa una superficie de 43.653km². Su capital es la ciudad de Rio de Janeiro.
Las ciudades más importantes son: Río de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu, Niterói, Duque de Caxias, Campos, Macaé, São Gonçalo, São João de Meriti y Volta Redonda. Paraíba do Sul, Macaé, Guandu, Piraí y Muriaé son los ríos principales y el clima es tropical, caliente en el litoral, pero más ameno en las regiones de montañas.





