Twenty years ago, his father recounted a true story about Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park that few people know. In the 1860s, six enslaved Black Brazilians — Eleuterio, Constantino ...

Tijuca National Park is ranked #2 out of 17 things to do in Rio de Janeiro. See pictures and our review of Tijuca National Park.

Its exceptionally dramatic landscape is punctuated by a series of forested mountains that tower over the city, rising to the uppermost peak of the Tijuca massif at 1,021 m high, and cascading down to ...

People visit the Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 21, 2023.(Photo: Xinhua) This photo taken on May 20, 2023 shows a monkey at the Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro ...

The monument rests atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca National Park and is the most famous attraction in Rio de Janeiro, visited by nearly 2 million people each year.

The area around Rio de Janeiro is a lush tropical landscape filled with biodiversity and adventure. On this five-hour Tijuca ...

What happens when animals return to Rio’s largest urban park? In the middle of Rio de Janeiro sits the world’s largest urban rainforest: Tijuca National park. To combat a century of ...

Rio de Janeiro is a vibrant city that blends breathtaking landscapes with ... From the golden sands of Copacabana to the lush trails of Tijuca National Park, Rio offers something for every type of ...

Rio de Janeiro has become Brazil’s tourism capital ... beautiful beaches and a vivid landscape to ... via a 20-minute train journey that begins within Tijuca National Park ...

Like many cyclists in Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Richard, a 34-year-old oceanographer, trains several times a week in Tijuca National Park, a tropical oasis that stretches across a mountainous area ...

A colored lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann of the Tijuca forest waterfall in the Tijuca National Park, Rio de Janeiro, circa 1830s. Tourists are sketching the view while locals work nearby.