Parque Natural Municipal da Catacumba
Forested hillside park with modernist sculptures and lookout trails, planted over a demolished 1970s hillside community.
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This guide to Parque Natural Municipal da Catacumba in Rio de Janeiro opens with a dispute over a broken pipe outside a corner bar on August 2, 1967, that spiraled into a fire tearing through a hillside community. It traces the favela of Catacumba back to the 1930s, when migrants from the northern state of Maranhão settled this land above the lagoon, on ground once linked to an enslaving baroness. A listening tip: walk the two lookout trails climbing toward the ridge as the narration unfolds.
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