South America · Illustrated record
Copacabana Beach
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
The short version, from the cited sources
Copacabana is four kilometres of crescent beach at the heart of Rio de Janeiro, walked along the black-and-white Portuguese-pavement wave mosaic of the Avenida Atlantica promenade. It functions as the city's public square: New Year's Eve gathers millions on the sand, football and footvolley run all day, and vendor tents and kiosks form a continuous beach economy. The Sugarloaf closes the view at its eastern end and the fort at Copacabana anchors the west.
- Country
- Brazil (BR)
- Region
- South America
- Sand
- Golden
- Water
- Open atlantic surf
- Administrative area
- Rio de Janeiro
- Timezone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-06-22
Names in the record
Copacabana Beach
- Praia de Copacabana
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
- Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds
Source position
-22.96890, -43.17910
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Direct provenance
Sources behind this record
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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