one of the eldest neighborhoods in rio de janeiro, andaraí is located just north of the famous tijuca neighborhood, and it also had one of the first samba schools to ever exist in the city.

known as floresta do andaraí (andaraí's forest), this was a popular and relatively successful congregation dating back to the 1930s.

it went on to earn two vice-championships in 1941 and 1946, but during the 1950s it didn't managed to sustain itself and disappeared.