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Governador Island (Ilha do Governador, in Portuguese; literally Governor's Island, in English) is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a population of about 211,018 inhabitants, in a small area of 42 km² (16 sq mi).

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Governador Island

Native name: Ilha do Governador
August 2016 satellite image
Governador Island Location of the island in Guanabara Bay
Geography
Location	Guanabara Bay
Coordinates	22°48′21″S 43°12′37″W
Area	36.12 km2 (13.95 sq mi)
Administration
Brazil
State	Rio de Janeiro
Municipality	Rio de Janeiro
Zone	North Zone
Administrative Region	Ilha do Governador
Demographics
Population	211,018
Pop. density	5,806.56/km2 (15038.92/sq mi)

Rio de Janeiro's main airport, Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport, and the Galeão Air Force Base are located on Governador Island and occupy about a third of it, in the western and northwestern parts. A small sea inlet that once existed on the northwestern shore was landfilled to build the airport's runway 10/28, thereby increasing the island's area.

Often mentioned by cariocas (inhabitants of Rio city) simply as Ilha ("island"), Governador Island has some favelas, such as the not pacified Morro do Dendê, the largest one, but it also has many middle-class neighborhoods like the third best IDH index in the city, the Jardim Guanabara neighborhood. The island is connected to Fundão Island and to the mainland by a complex of expressway bridges and through a barge in Cocotá Terminal, transporting passengers to downtown Rio.

The name means "Governor's Island" because one of the first colonial governors of Brazil built a country house on the island in the 16th century. The native name for the island in Old Tupi was Paranapuã, which means "sea branch".

People from Governador Island suffer from high pollution from Guanabara Bay. Although surrounded by beaches, many of them have become unusable even though the bay has been cleaned up in recent years for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

The island is home to only one professional football club, A.A. Portuguesa. Its home is Estádio Luso Brasileiro, which in recent years has been expanded so it can be used professionally by Botafogo, as Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, its normal home, is being used for Olympic purposes. It was also used by Flamengo during 2017 and 2018, in the time being called Ilha do Urubu.[1]

Neighborhoods

In July 1981, the then mayor Júlio Coutinho approved a law that effectively divided Governador Island in fourteen different new neighborhoods: Bancários, Cacuia, Cocotá, Galeão, Jardim Carioca, Jardim Guanabara, Moneró, Pitangueiras, Portuguesa, Praia da Bandeira, Ribeira, Tauá and Zumbi.[2]

References

External links

• Media related to Ilha do Governador at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Ilha do Governador

Die Ilha do Governador (port. für Gouverneursinsel) ist die größte Insel in der Guanabara-Bucht und ein Stadtteil von Rio de Janeiro. Auf der 42 km² großen Insel wohnen rund 450.000 Menschen.

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- [en] Governador Island

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[fr] Ilha do Governador

Ilha do Governador (« île du Gouverneur ») est une île située sur la rive occidentale de la baie de Guanabara, au Brésil. Elle fait partie de la ville de Rio de Janeiro dont elle constitue l'un des quartiers.

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[ru] Остров Губернатора

Остров Губернатора (порт. Ilha do Governador) — муниципальный район (субпрефектура, порт. subprefeitura) города Рио-де-Жанейро, занимающий самый крупный остров в заливе Гуанабара. Территория района — 40,81 км², население (2010) — 212 574 чел.[1] Остров соединён с соседним островом Фундан (который административно также входит в район Острова Губернатора) и материком системой мостов со скоростным движением.

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