Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Rio de Janeiro
Detourmap lists 37 places in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Sugarloaf Mountain. 22 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 37
- Oldest
- Valongo Wharf 1811
- Little known
- 22 of 37
- Share of Brazil
- 16%
Rio de Janeiro 37
All 37, best known first.
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32.Cairuçu Environmental Protection Area
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Environmental protection area
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36.Museu Casa de Rui Barbosa
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Elsewhere in Brazil
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Rio de Janeiro?
Sugarloaf Mountain. Peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Rio de Janeiro?
37: 34 nature & landscapes and 3 archaeological & historic sites. 22 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Rio de Janeiro?
Valongo Wharf, dated to 1811. 8 of the 37 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Rio de Janeiro here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Rio de Janeiro if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Rio de Janeiro is a first-level division of Brazil, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.