Marechal Hermes | |
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Neighborhood | |
  Marechal Hermes Location in Rio de Janeiro Show map of Rio de Janeiro Marechal Hermes Marechal Hermes (Brazil) Show map of Brazil | |
| Coordinates:22°51′43″S43°22′15″W / 22.86194°S 43.37083°W /-22.86194; -43.37083 | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| State | Rio de Janeiro (RJ) |
| Municipality/City | Rio de Janeiro |
| Zone | North Zone |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 48,061 (17,345 residences) |
Marechal Hermes is a planned working-class neighborhood located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded on May 1, 1913. Surrounding neighborhoods includeBento Ribeiro,Campo dos Afonsos,Vila Valqueire, Deodoro and Guadalupe. It takes its name after Brazil's former president MarechalHermes da Fonseca.
Marechal Hermes, it is a neighborhood with Portuguese architecture, as a large number of Portuguese people migrated to the neighborhood.
The neighborhood's train station was preserved as a national heritage site, as it is a beautiful Portuguese architectural work, which had bronze gates in the Lusitanian style.
As of 2000, itsHDI is 0.814; the 36th position of the city out of 126.
It contains wide avenues, a theatre, a large hospital, a big church and several schools. Many of its original inhabitants were military men in view of the army and airforce headquarters nearby in Deodoro andCampo dos Afonsos respectively.
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