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Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro

Neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil

Field	Value
name	Guadalupe
settlement_type	Neighborhood
pushpin_map	Brazil Rio de Janeiro#Brazil
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Rio de Janeiro
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Brazil
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
subdivision_type2	Municipality/City
subdivision_name2	Rio de Janeiro
subdivision_type3	Zone
subdivision_name3	North Zone
coordinates

Guadalupe is a neighborhood located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is surrounded by Barros Filho, Honório Gurgel, Marechal Hermes, Deodoro, Ricardo de Albuquerque, Costa Barros and Anchieta. Its designation is a homage to Our Lady of Guadalupe which main church in Rio de Janeiro is located in this neighbourhood. The neighbourhood was built as a project of former Casa Popular Foundation and it was inaugurated by president Getúlio Vargas. Are also notable in the neighbourhood the "Igloos of Guadalupe", a set of houses in hemisphere shape, looking like igloos, and built in the late 1940s on Calama street.

In Guadalupe, there are many retail stores, banks, shopping mall, municipal day care, courses, laboratories, movie theater, social clubs, health clubs, factories, the Terra cultural center, restaurants, hypermarket, pharmacies, clinics, college, the Augusto Amaral Peixoto clinic and many city-owned and private schools.

Guadalupe is crossed by the Avenida Brasil, which links downtown area to the West Zone of the city. By this reason, many bus lines that cross the city are available in Guadalupe. Other notable pathways within the neighbourhood are Marcos de Macedo street, Camboatá road, Francisco Portela street and Luís Coutinho Cavalcanti street.

The main companies located in Guadalupe are: Obramax (home improvement retailer), SuperMarket and Atacadão hypermarkets, the Guadalupe Shopping (shopping mall), the Guadalupe Country Clube, Estácio de Sá University, the Ponto Cine (movie theater) and the Pio XII school among others.

In December 2009, Saphyr entrepreneur announced the plan of building a major shopping mall in the place previously occupied by the former pharmaceutical industry Melhoral. The mall openened on November 24, 2011, and it is named Shopping Jardim Guadalupe.

Data

Land area (2003): 382.00 hectares
Population (2000): 46,325 people
Number of homes (2000): 13,959 units

Guadalupe belongs to XXII Administrative Region (Anchieta) of Rio de Janeiro. The neighborhoods that compound this Administrative Region are: Anchieta, Guadalupe, Parque Anchieta and Ricardo de Albuquerque.

The designation Guadalupe has been used informally for many decades but only on July 23, 1981, the neighbourhood was officially created, by means of a municipal decree.

References

Portal Fator Brasil. "Shopping Jardim Guadalupe inaugura com 98% da ABL locada".

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