South America · Illustrated record
Praia do Pontal
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
The short version, from the cited sources
Pontal is a small peninsula and beach area in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes neighborhood, located in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was a temporary venue in the Barra Olympic venues cluster for the Athletics and Cycling competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- Country
- Brazil (BR)
- Region
- South America
- Surface
- Sand
- Administrative area
- Rio de Janeiro
- Timezone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2016-06-22
Names in the record
Praia do Pontal
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
Awaiting editorial review
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- Water and swimming character
- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
- Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds
Source position
-23.03022, -43.47497
The map uses the coordinate supplied by the cited record. Local access and water entry are not implied.
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.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02 - OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗
Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.
ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04 - Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗
Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.
CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04 - Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗
Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04