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May 26, 2006
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Points of Interest in Google Earth
Here is another collection of placemarks showing many of the points of interests in a popular city. This time we have Rio de Janeiro 
in Brazil with over 1000 placemarks (in portuguese). The collection also contains polygons showing the borders of districts (counties?) in the area. Each district has a placemark showing its approximate population. It is being maintained by a 'muxaxo_rj', who for some reason has put his E-mail address as a link in most of the placemarks. There have been contributions from many other brazilians in the thread. There are a number of web cam placemarks in the area as well. I really like web cam placemarks where you can compare the GE views to the real-life current web cam shots.
If you're going to visit Rio, you really can't miss seeing the famous Christ the Redeemer statue up in the mountains. So, here is a 3D model of the statue posted by 'wribeiro'. Of course, you can also turn on the Google Earth Community layers in GE and see even more points of interest.
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Posted by FrankTaylor at May 26, 2006 09:02 AM
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Posted by: victor xavier at May 26, 2006 08:05 PM
Just an explanation of what is written above:
"The collection also contains polygons showing the borders of districts (counties?) in the area."
These "districts" are more like neighborhoods than counties. Comparing to New York city, these neighborhoods in Rio are equal to their Boroughs. This comparision is a little out of scale, since Rio's boroughs are just a quarter of the New Yorker's boroughs size.
If you get yourself in Rio, you may follow what I'm talking about.
Have a great, people.
Posted by: Michel at August 17, 2006 09:25 AM
Good for rio de janeiro and good for all!
Posted by: rio de janeiro brazil rental at December 17, 2006 02:23 PM
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Excelent post, i live 21 years at Rio de Janeiro, and have never seen my city like this..
itīs awesome...
at my blog, have information about the "every day", of Rio... with some photos...
please check it out..