Nova Iguaçu is a city in Baixada Fluminense, in the metro area of Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro.

Understand

Nova Iguaçu is the second largest city of Baixada Fluminense, and, together with Duque de Caxias, it polarizes the municipalities of this sub-region of the metro area of Rio. In turn, these two municipalities - just like all other peripheral municipalities of Baixada Fluminense and Greater Rio as a whole - are polarized by the downtown area of Rio de Janeiro, the metropolitan core.

Between 1943 and 1999, the current municipalities of Duque de Caxias, São João de Meriti, Nilópolis, Belford Roxo, Queimados, Japeri, and Mesquita (all belonging to Baixada Fluminense) were emancipated from Nova Iguaçu. It is, therefore, the municipality of Greater Rio from which the largest number of districts was dismembered during the 20th century.

Get in

Downtown area of Nova Iguaçu.

From the Central Zone of Rio de Janeiro, urban bus, van and train lines depart to Nova Iguaçu.

Get around

See

Ruínas da Fazenda São Bernardino (Ruins of the São Bernardino Farm), Iguaçu Velho.
  • Bell tower of Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Tower and church ruins which date back to the original settlement in the 17th century. 
  • Chapel of Engenho da Posse, Alto da Posse - Bairro da Posse. Constructed between 1630 and 1630. 
  • Igreja de Santo Antônio de Jacutinga, Avenida Getúlio de Moura. Constructed in the 19th century. 
  • Igreja de Santo Antônio da Prata, Estrada Dr. Plínio Casado - Prata. 
  • Parque Municipal de Nova Iguaçu. 
  • Reserva Biológica Federal do Tinguá. 
  • Serra de Madureira. 
  • Serra do Tinguá. 
  • Serra do Vulcão. 
  • Área de Proteção Ambiental de Gericinó-Mendanha - APA de Gericinó-Mendanha (Gericinó-Mendanha Environmental Protection Area)
  • Rio Tinguá (Tinguá River)
  • Rio Iguaçu (Iguaçu River)
  • Rio Guandu (Guandu River)
  • Estação de Tratamento de Água do Guandu (Guandu Water Treatment Station) - The largest water treatment station in the world in continuous production, which supplies around 9 million people in the municipálity of Rio de Janeiro and in the region of Baixada Fluminense.
  • Ruínas da Fazenda São Bernardino (Ruins of the São Bernardino Farm)

Do

Buy

Eat

  • Restaurante Sabores de Lisboa - Rua Dom Walmor, 438 - Centro, Nova Iguaçu.

Drink

Sleep

  • Apart Hotel Mont Blanc Diamond Flat - Rua Iracema Soares Pereira Junqueira, 99 - Centro, Nova Iguaçu.

Connect

Go next


Routes through Nova Iguaçu
Fortaleza ← Rio de Janeiro ←  N  S  → Volta Redonda → São Paulo



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