Belford Roxo
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Município do Belford Roxo Municipality of Belford Roxo |
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View of Prata Santo Antonio Church (Igreja de Santo Antônio da Prata)
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| Motto: Paz e Progresso (Peace and Progress) | |||
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 Belford Roxo
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| Coordinates: 22°45′50″S 43°23′56″W / 22.76389°S 43.39889°WCoordinates: 22°45′50″S 43°23′56″W / 22.76389°S 43.39889°W | |||
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 Brazil
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| Region | Southeast | ||
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 Rio de Janeiro
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| City Established | April 3, 1990 | ||
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| • Type | Mayor-council | ||
| • Body | Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro | ||
| • Mayor | Dennis Dauttman (PCdoB (2013–2016)) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 79.791 km2 (30.807 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 38 m (125 ft) | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • Total | 495,694 | ||
| • Density | 6,200/km2 (16,000/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | belford-roxense | ||
| Time zone | BRT (UTC−3) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | BRST (UTC−2) | ||
| Area code(s) | +55 21 | ||
Belford Roxo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɛwfɔχ ˈχoʃu]) is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a part of the metropolitan region of the city of Rio de Janeiro and was created in 1990. Its population was 495,694 in 2011 and its area is 79 km². Belford Roxo is not one of the richest and wealthiest cities in the state, due to its low GDP and relatively high population. Its climate is tropical with an average temperature of 18 °C (63 °F). Bayer and Lubrizol are the biggest companies in the municipality. It was named after Engineer Raimundo Teixeira Belfort Roxo. While serving as General Construction and Building Inspector for the city of Rio de Janeiro, Engineer Belfort Roxo, together with Engineer Paulo de Frontin, solved the water shortage problems of the area during the summer of 1889.
The city gained notoriety from the samba school Lambs of Belford Roxo, parading annually in the Carnival of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Currently the municipality is the seventh most populous of Rio de Janeiro, with 479,386 inhabitants, according to IBGE estimates for 2014, and has the 14th largest state GDP, with 3.539.442.000 thousand. Nevertheless, its per capita income in 2008 was R $7,140.38, one of the state's low. When comparing social indicators with other cities in the state, as Niterói and Petrópolis, it is clear that the municipality provides basic services infrastructure, with lower standards than other neighboring municipalities. Its HDI is 0.684, which despite being considered average by calculating the IBGE / 2010, according to UN standards is critically below the average of the state of Rio de Janeiro (0768), and the national average (0744 ).
A few years after the expulsion of the French, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Christopher de Barros, gave the captain Belchior Azeredo one sesmaria on the river Sarapuí, in the old village of Jacutingas Indians. There, he founded the Santo Antônio mill Jacutinga, which in the future would be the current municipality of Belford Roxo. A shrine to St. Anthony was built on a hillside 750 meters from the river bank Sarapuí, near the site established for port activities.
At the dawn of the seventeenth century, the Holy mill Antonio Jacutinga was dismembered, appearing then the maxambomba mill (Nova Iguaçu) and the ingenuity of Poce (Tenure). In the eighteenth century, a new break (this time in maxambomba the mill lands) has raised the Caxoeira mill (Mosque), on land that belonged to the governor of Rio de Janeiro Salvador de Sá. For over two hundred years, the land remained, by hereditary succession, under the control of the heirs of Salvador de Sá, the Vasques Correia family.
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