The celebration takes place just five miles from the heart of Tijuca National Park. (Marcelo speaking Portuguese) NARRATOR: At 15 square miles, Tijuca is one of the largest urban rainforests on Earth.

Built in 1922 by the Catholic Church, the Christ the Redeemer statue is inside the Tijuca National Park, a sprawling 3,953-hectare expanse of restored Atlantic Forest recognized as one of the ...

Twenty years ago, his father recounted a true story about Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park that few people know. In the 1860s, six enslaved Black Brazilians — Eleuterio, Constantino ...

The community outside Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park has done something no other favela has: built its own biosystem to process waste. How a favela in Rio got its clean water back ...

Now, all howlers slated for translocation must be vaccinated, including those reintroduced later to the 4,000-hectare (10,000-acre) Tijuca National Park, an urban forest at the heart of Rio de ...

The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of the city: from the highest points of the Tijuca National Park’s ...

The celebration takes place just five miles from the heart of Tijuca National Park. (Marcelo speaking Portuguese) NARRATOR: At 15 square miles, Tijuca is one of the largest urban rainforests on Earth.

Built in 1922 by the Catholic Church, the Christ the Redeemer statue is inside the Tijuca National Park, a sprawling 3,953-hectare expanse of restored Atlantic Forest recognized as one of the ...

OPINION: Tijuca National Park is the largest urban rainforest in the world and the heart of Rio. Now, the little-known story of how six enslaved Black Brazilians helped save the land from complete ...

Built in 1922 by the Catholic Church, the Christ the Redeemer statue is inside the Tijuca National Park, a sprawling 3,953-hectare expanse of restored Atlantic Forest recognized as one of the ...