Guadalupe (Rio de Janeiro)
Encyclopedia
Guadalupe is a neighbourhood
located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro
, Brazil
. It is surrounded by Barros Filho
, Honório Gurgel
, Marechal Hermes
, Deodoro, Ricardo de Albuquerque
, Costa Barros
and Anchieta
. Its designation is a homage
to Our Lady of Guadalupe
which main church in Rio de Janeiro is located in this neighbourhood. The neighboourhood was built as a project of former Casa Popular Foundation and it was inaugurated by president
Getúlio Vargas
. Are also notable in the neighbourhood the "Igloos of Guadalupe", a set of house
s in hemisphere
shape
, looking like igloo
s, and built in the late 1940s
on Calama street
.
In Guadalupe, there are many retail stores, bank
s, shopping mall
, municipal
day care
, courses
, laboratories
, movie theater
, social clubs, health club
s, factories
, the Terra cultural center
, restaurant
s, hypermarket
, pharmacies
, clinic
s, college
, the Augusto Amaral Peixoto clinic and many city-owned and private school
s.
Guadalupe is crossed by Brasil avenue
, which links downtown area
to the West Zone of the city. By this reason, many bus lines
that cross the city are available in Guadalupe. Other notable pathways within the neighbourhood are Marcos de Macedo street, Camboatá road, Francisco Portela street and Luís Coutinho Cavalcanti street.
The main companies
located in Guadalupe are: Pimaco (owned by Société Bic
), Perdigão factory, Casa & Video (warehouse
and retail store), Atacadão
hypermarket, Prezunic hypermarket, Cacau Show, C&A
, Casas Bahia
, McDonald's
and O Boticário
. There is also a branch of Fisk Language Course
, the Labormed (medical laboratory
), the Guadalupe Shopping (shopping mall
), Bob's
, Bradesco bank
, Estácio de Sá University
, Ponto Cine (movie theater
), Pio XII school and others.
In December 2009, Saphyr entrepreneur
announced the plan of building a major shopping mall
in the place previously occupied by the former pharmaceutical industry Melhoral. The mall opening is scheduled to October 2011. In May 2010, it was announced that this new shopping mall will be named Jardim Guadalupe.
Guadalupe belongs to XXII Administrative Region (Anchieta) of Rio de Janeiro. The neighbourhoods that compound this Administrative Region are: Anchieta
, Guadalupe, Parque Anchieta and Ricardo de Albuquerque
.
The designation Guadalupe has been used informally for many decades but only on July 23, 1981, the neighbourhood was officially created, by means of a municipal decree
.
Neighbourhood
A neighbourhood or neighborhood is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town or suburb. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. "Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition...
located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. It is surrounded by Barros Filho
Barros Filho
Barros Filho is a lower-class neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. It is one of the poorest areas in the city. Its name honours the farmer's son who gave land from his farm Boa Esperança , Antônio da Costa Barros for the construction of the railway which was inaugurated in...
, Honório Gurgel
Honório Gurgel
Honorio Gurgel is a neighborhood middle-class area north of Rio de Janeiro. Rocha Miranda's neighbor, Marechal Hermes, Bento Ribeiro, Coelho Neto and Barros Filho, also being cut by railroads....
, Marechal Hermes
Marechal Hermes
Marechal Hermes is a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a working class suburb situated in the North region of Rio surrounded by Bento Ribeiro, Campo dos Afonsos, Deodoro and Guadalupe...
, Deodoro, Ricardo de Albuquerque
Ricardo de Albuquerque
Ricardo de Albuquerque is a neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro....
, Costa Barros
Costa Barros
Costa Barros is a neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro....
and Anchieta
Anchieta (Rio de Janeiro)
Anchieta is a neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....
. Its designation is a homage
Homage
Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....
to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
which main church in Rio de Janeiro is located in this neighbourhood. The neighboourhood was built as a project of former Casa Popular Foundation and it was inaugurated by president
President of Brazil
The president of Brazil is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces...
Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas served as President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Vargas led Brazil for 18 years, the most for any President, and second in Brazilian history to Emperor Pedro II...
. Are also notable in the neighbourhood the "Igloos of Guadalupe", a set of house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
s in hemisphere
Hemisphere
Hemisphere may refer to:*Half of a sphereAs half of the Earth:*Any half of the Earth, see Hemispheres of the Earth, see:...
shape
Shape
The shape of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material...
, looking like igloo
Igloo
An igloo or snowhouse is a type of shelter built of snow, originally built by the Inuit....
s, and built in the late 1940s
1940s
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on Calama street
Street
A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...
.
In Guadalupe, there are many retail stores, bank
Bank
A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...
s, shopping mall
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
, municipal
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
day care
Day care
Child care or day care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's legal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the child's immediate family...
, courses
Course (education)
The very broad dictionary meaning of the word course is the act or action of moving in a path from point to point . There are multiple meanings for this word, some of which include: general line of orientation, a mode of action, part of a meal, a mode of action, and many more. This article focuses...
, laboratories
Medical laboratory
A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are done on clinical specimens in order to get information about the health of a patient as pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.-Departments:...
, movie theater
Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
, social clubs, health club
Health club
A health club is a place which houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise.-Main workout area:...
s, factories
Factory
A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...
, the Terra cultural center
Cultural center
A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts. Cultural centers can be neighborhood community arts organizations, private facilities, government-sponsored, or activist-run...
, restaurant
Restaurant
A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...
s, hypermarket
Hypermarket
In commerce, a hypermarket is a superstore combining a supermarket and a department store. The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full groceries lines and general merchandise...
, pharmacies
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
, clinic
Clinic
A clinic is a health care facility that is primarily devoted to the care of outpatients...
s, college
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
, the Augusto Amaral Peixoto clinic and many city-owned and private school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
s.
Guadalupe is crossed by Brasil avenue
Avenida Brasil
Avenida Brasil is an expressway-like thoroughfare in Rio de Janeiro....
, which links downtown area
Centro (Rio de Janeiro)
The Centro is a neighbourhood of the downtown area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It represents the financial heart of the city, and the crux of the Central Region.- Characteristics :...
to the West Zone of the city. By this reason, many bus lines
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
that cross the city are available in Guadalupe. Other notable pathways within the neighbourhood are Marcos de Macedo street, Camboatá road, Francisco Portela street and Luís Coutinho Cavalcanti street.
The main companies
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
located in Guadalupe are: Pimaco (owned by Société Bic
Société Bic
Société Bic is a company based in Clichy, France, founded in 1945, by Baron Marcel Bich known for making disposable products including lighters, magnets, ballpoint pens, shaving razors and watersports products. It competes in most markets against Faber-Castell, Global Gillette, Newell Rubbermaid...
), Perdigão factory, Casa & Video (warehouse
Warehouse
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload...
and retail store), Atacadão
Atacadão
Atacadão is a Brazilian wholesale hypermarket. It was established by Alcides Parizotto and age of property of the family Lima and to the executives Farid Curi and Herberto Uli Schmeil, when it was bought in 2007 for the Carrefour for R$ 2,2 billion Reals. In 2010, the chain opened its first store...
hypermarket, Prezunic hypermarket, Cacau Show, C&A
C&A
C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with its European head offices in Vilvoorde , Belgium and Düsseldorf, Germany...
, Casas Bahia
Casas Bahia
Casas Bahia is a in Brazilian retail chain which specializes in furniture and home appliances. It was founded in 1957 in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, by Polish immigrant Samuel Klein , who began his career as a peddler selling products to immigrants from the Brazilian Northeast...
, McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
and O Boticário
O Boticário
O Boticário is the second biggest Brazilian cosmetic company, behind Natura. It has 2,114 stores in Brazil, 52 in Portugal, 4 stores in Mexico, 5 stores and 6 points of sales in Bolivia, 2 in Peru, 2 in Paraguay, 438 points of sale in Japan and has stores in other fourteen countries. O Boticário...
. There is also a branch of Fisk Language Course
Language education
Language education is the teaching and learning of a foreign or second language. Language education is a branch of applied linguistics.- Need for language education :...
, the Labormed (medical laboratory
Medical laboratory
A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are done on clinical specimens in order to get information about the health of a patient as pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.-Departments:...
), the Guadalupe Shopping (shopping mall
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
), Bob's
Bob's
Bob's is the first Brazilian fast food chain, founded in 1952 by the American Brazilian tennis champion Robert Falkenburg, Wimbledon tourney winner in 1948. The first store was opened in the borough of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro....
, Bradesco bank
Banco Bradesco
Bradesco is one of the Big Four banks in Brazil, the others being Banco do Brasil, Itaú Unibanco and CEF. Bradesco was the largest private bank in Brazil until Banco Itaú and Unibanco merged in 2009. Bradesco is headquartered in Osasco, has 3,945 branches and 38,772 Automatic Teller Machines...
, Estácio de Sá University
Estácio de Sá University
Estácio is a private educacional company focused in the universities sector founded in 1970 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.It is named after the Portuguese knight and military officer Estácio de Sá, who was the founder of the city of Rio de Janeiro...
, Ponto Cine (movie theater
Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
), Pio XII school and others.
In December 2009, Saphyr entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
announced the plan of building a major shopping mall
Shopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
in the place previously occupied by the former pharmaceutical industry Melhoral. The mall opening is scheduled to October 2011. In May 2010, it was announced that this new shopping mall will be named Jardim Guadalupe.
Data
- Land area (2003): 382.00 hectareHectareThe hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
s - Population (2000): 46,325 people
- Number of homes (2000): 13,959 units
Guadalupe belongs to XXII Administrative Region (Anchieta) of Rio de Janeiro. The neighbourhoods that compound this Administrative Region are: Anchieta
Anchieta (Rio de Janeiro)
Anchieta is a neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....
, Guadalupe, Parque Anchieta and Ricardo de Albuquerque
Ricardo de Albuquerque
Ricardo de Albuquerque is a neighbourhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro....
.
The designation Guadalupe has been used informally for many decades but only on July 23, 1981, the neighbourhood was officially created, by means of a municipal decree
Decree
A decree is a rule of law issued by a head of state , according to certain procedures . It has the force of law...
.