rio de janeiro is home to an estimated 1000 favelas in the metropolitan area alone  - we provide information on the communities likely to be of interest to visitors, with the eight listed at the bottom of this page described in most detail.

with the aim of giving a better perspective, on this link we include  a more comprehensive list of hundreds of communities in rio. in parenthesis next to each favela is the neighborhood or administrative area of the city in which the favela is located.