cans containing marijuana started to float and appeared on the sand of ipanema for weeks, making of 1988 the most famous summer of this beach.

ipanema has become a point of reference for beach life, musical, cultural, and sporting events such as the circuito ipanema posto 9, and the tournament rei e rainha do mar (king and queen of the sea), among others.

the other famous spot of ipanema beach is posto 8, internationally known as the best gay beach in rio.