Rocinha. The largest favela in Rio de Janeiro. Now a Community.

Photo Lilian Quaino/G1

Rocinha is located in Rio's South Zone between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one kilometre from a nearby beach.

Although Rocinha is technically classified as a neighborhood, many still refer to it as a favela. It developed from a shanty town into an urbanized slum. Today, almost all the houses in Rocinha are made from concrete and brick. Some buildings are three and four stories tall and almost all houses have basic sanitation, plumbing, and electricity. Compared to simple shanty towns or slums, Rocinha has a better developed infrastructure and hundreds of businesses such as banks, medicine stores, bus lines, cable television, including locally based channel TV ROC, and, at one time, a McDonalds franchise.

 These factors help classify Rocinha as a favela bairro, or favela neighborhood. Most of the favela is on a very steep hill, with many trees surrounding it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocinha

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