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Native name: Ilha do Governador | |
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 August 2016 satellite image | |
  Governador Island Location of the island in Guanabara Bay | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Guanabara Bay |
| Coordinates | 22°48′21″S43°12′37″W / 22.80583°S 43.21028°W /-22.80583; -43.21028 |
| Area | 36.12 km2 (13.95 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
Brazil | |
| State | Rio de Janeiro |
| Municipality | Rio de Janeiro |
| Zone | North Zone |
| Administrative Region | Ilha do Governador |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 211,018 |
| Pop. density | 5,806.56/km2 (15038.92/sq mi) |
Governador Island (Ilha do Governador, inPortuguese; literallyGovernor's Island, inEnglish) is the largest island inGuanabara Bay, inRio de Janeiro,Brazil. It has a population of about 211,018 inhabitants, in a small area of 42 km2 (16 sq mi).
Rio de Janeiro's main airport,Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport, and theGaleão Air Force Base are located on Governador Island and occupy about a third of it, in the western and northwestern parts. A small sea inlet that once existed on the northwestern shore waslandfilled to build the airport'srunway 10/28, thereby increasing the island's area.
Often mentioned bycariocas (inhabitants of Rio city) simply asIlha ("island"), Governador Island has somefavelas, such asMorro do Dendê, the largest one, but it also has many middle-class neighborhoods, likeJardim Guanabara, with the third highest HDI in the city. The island is connected toFundão Island and to the mainland by a complex of expressway bridges and through a ferry in Cocotá Terminal, transporting passengers todowntown Rio.
The name means "Governor's Island" because one of the first colonial governors of Brazil built a country house on the island in the 16th century. The native name for the island inOld Tupi wasParanapuã, which means "sea branch".
People from Governador Island suffer from high pollution from Guanabara Bay. Although surrounded by beaches, many of them have become unusable even though the bay has been cleaned up in recent years for the2016 Summer Olympics.
The island is home to only one professional football club,A.A. Portuguesa. Its home isEstádio Luso Brasileiro, which in recent years has been expanded so it can be used professionally byBotafogo, asEstádio Olímpico João Havelange, its normal home, is being used for Olympic purposes. It was also used byFlamengo during 2017 and 2018, in the time being called Ilha do Urubu.[1]
In July 1981, the then mayor Júlio Coutinho approved a law that effectively divided Governador Island in fourteen different new neighborhoods: Bancários, Cacuia, Cocotá, Galeão, Jardim Carioca, Jardim Guanabara, Moneró, Pitangueiras, Portuguesa, Praia da Bandeira, Ribeira, Tauá and Zumbi.[2]
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