2016 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony
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| Date | 18 September 2016 |
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| Location | Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Filmed by | Rede Globo and OBS |
The closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 18 September 2016.
The ceremony's cultural portions were structured as a concert featuring a number of major Brazilian singers and bands, headlined by Ivete Sangalo and Gaby Amarantos. As per Paralympic protocol, the ceremony featured the official closing of the Games, including closing remarks by International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven and the leader of the Games' organizing committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the handover of the Paralympic flag from Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes to Yuriko Koike, governor of Tokyo—host of the 2020 Summer Paralympics, a cultural presentation by the next host city, and the extinguishing of the Paralympic flame.
Athletes were already seated in the stadium prior to the start of the ceremony. The opening segments featured deaf drummers guided by a "visual metronome" lead by the singer Gaby Amarantos, a performance by Andreas Kisser set to a sequence featuring acrobats in wheelchairs, and a performance by Jonathan Bastos—who was born armless and plays guitar with his feet. Following the playing of the national anthem by Saulo Laucas, a singer who was born blind and was diagnosed with a mild form of autism as a child, flagbearers representing the countries that participated in these Paralympics entered the stadium.
The cultural program of the closing ceremony was structured as a concert, being headlined by Brazilian pop divas Ivete Sangalo and Gaby Amarantos, joined by Vanessa da Mata, Céu, Saulo Fernandes, Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser, Armandinho, Johnathan Bastos, the groups Nação Zumbi and Dream Team do Passinho along the funk singer Nego do Borel, and British singer Calum Scott (who collaborated with Ivete Sangalo on "", the official song of the 2016 Summer Paralympics). During their performance, Nação Zumbi's guitarist was seen with a sign reading "Fora Temer" ("Temer, Get Out"), referencing President of Brazil Michel Temer.
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