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Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 25, 2006 at 07:01 AM in Travels | Permalink
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That is in the bay, behind Ipanema, in case you are wondering.
Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Dec 25, 2006 7:50:20 AM
Tyler,
Don't you mean the Lagoon behind Ipanema?
Posted by: cactus at Dec 25, 2006 8:52:51 AM
What a nice picture...
Thanks for a wonderful year of interesting thoughts, imagination, and analysis...Merry Christmas from snowbound Littleton.
Posted by: dave meleney at Dec 25, 2006 2:28:26 PM
It's not a bay. It's a lake. Lake "Rodrigo de Freitas", right behind Ipanema. It sure looks beautiful and all, but that christmas tree simply ruins the traffic around the lake. People come from all over the place to admire it, driving their cars slowly as they can, parking them in the first spot that looks available (at times, that means right in the middle of the streets surrounding the lake, which are already unconceivably narrow).
It may look good. But it makes life feel like hell for people like me, that is - people that live and work in Rio de Janeiro.
Posted by: Márcio Guilherme at Dec 25, 2006 4:32:23 PM
I believe that "lagoon" is a better translation for the Portuguese "lagoa." Am I correct in
believing that the water of the lagoon is brackish?
Posted by: Brian at Dec 25, 2006 7:16:22 PM
Marcio Guilherme,
I wonder if there's data on yearly traffic patterns in the area. It would be interesting to see how they changed in December about 12 years ago or so when the tree first went up.
Feliz Natal.
Posted by: cactus at Dec 25, 2006 7:17:00 PM
Brian,
Let's just say you really don't want to drink the water.
You also don't want to eat fish from the actual bay. There are two airports in Rio - the big international one, and a small one called Santos Dumont sitting on a spit of land overlooking the bay. If you fly into the latter, you'd be amazed at how much stuff you see bobbing in the water as the plane comes in. Note that the famous beaches - Copacabana and Ipanema and so forth are not in the bay.
Here's a stylized map of Rio: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.colorfotos.com.br/MapaRio3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.colorfotos.com.br/xmap.htm&h=526&w=779&sz=123&tbnid=ADUxSSK9s76jfM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=142&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmap%2Brio%2Bde%2Bjaneiro&start=2&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2
The bay is on the right side, next to the big mountain (Sugar Loaf). The lagoon is center left, behind Ipanema and Leblon beach.
Posted by: cactus4321 at Dec 25, 2006 7:26:07 PM
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