Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro 

Loaction:

• a sea side city in the South East 

History 

• Europeans first encountered Guanabara Bay on 1 January 1502 (hence Rio de Janeiro, "January River"), by a Portuguese expedition

• The kingdom's capital was transferred to the city, which, thus, became the only European capital outside of Europe.
• At the time Brazil's Old Republic was established, the city lacked urban planning and sanitation, which helped spread several diseases, such as yellow fever, dysentery, variola, tuberculosis and even black death.

• The city became the first South American city to host the event and the second Latin American city (after Mexico City in 1968) to host the Games.

Phsyical Geography:

• Rio de Janeiro is on the far western part of a ***** of Brazil's Atlantic coast (between a strait east to Ilha Grande, on the Costa Verde, and the Cabo Frio), close to the Tropic…