Our Adventure Awaits

A surge of Cariocas- residents of Rio- rests of a Sunday on world-renowned Copacabana Beach. From all over Brazil people come to live or vacation in this neighborhood, the country’s most densely populated. Even some of the sand is immigrant, having been pumped over an adjoining mountain to create an urban shore. National Geographic, February 1978

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