Rio de Janeiro is the second most populated city in Brazil, has the second highest GDP in the country and is undoubtedly one of the points of greatest tourist attraction due to its spectacular geographical location, which has earned it the nickname of “Wonderful City “(Cidade Maravilhosa).

Due to the location of Rio de Janeiro, the relief of its territory is marked by enormous contrasts, here are joined as in very few places in the world high mountains, huge lagoons, giant expanses of tropical forest (Atlantic forest) that share space with the urban development, rocky cliffs that rise abruptly from the sea level and beautiful beaches that are distributed through a coastal line of more than 246 kilometers that includes the areas of the Guanabara Bay, the coast of the Atlantic Ocean properly said and the bay of Sepetiba.