Tijuca National Park is ranked #2 out of 17 things to do in Rio de Janeiro. ... Rainforest Hike in Rio: Tijuca Waterfalls, Wildlife & Caves (744 reviews) from $74.62. Read More.

A hundred years later, in 1961, Tijuca was named a national park. (film reel clanking) (Fernando speaking Portuguese) ♪ NARRATOR: Pioneering, yes, but complete, no.

Tijuca forest park in Rio 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail Xinhua, January 14, 2014 A tourist take video footage of a coati in the rainforest in Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 11, 2014.

First protected in 1861 – a decade before the first national park in the United States – Tijuca forest is a 40 sq km chunk of Atlantic Forest, a once-vast biome that covered 1,000,000 sq km of ...

Exploring Tijuca National Park, a jungle inside a city. In Rio de Janeiro you will often hear the Tijuca Forest described as the largest jungle in the world, inside a city. It is not really true ...

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 ...

A hundred years later, in 1961, Tijuca was named a national park. (film reel clanking) (Fernando speaking Portuguese) ♪ NARRATOR: Pioneering, yes, but complete, no.

OPINION: Tijuca National Park is the largest urban rainforest in the world and the heart of Rio. Now, the little-known story of how six enslaved Black Brazilians helped save the land from complete ...

First protected in 1861 – a decade before the first national park in the United States – Tijuca forest is a 40 sq km chunk of Atlantic Forest, a once-vast biome that covered 1,000,000 sq km of ...