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.

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 ...

Tijuca forest park in Rio 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail Xinhua, January 14, 2014 A tourist feeds a coati with a banana in the rainforest in Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 11, 2014.

Iguaçu National Park is Brazil's second largest and attracts two million visitors annually, said Embratur officials. Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, where the Christ the Redeemer statue is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...