in approximately 110 years of the feira's existence, commerical centers have expanded to various neighborhoods, and changed in their format - today the municipality counts 197 feiras in total, in which over half of them are concentrated in the north zone of rio de janeiro, with both south and west zone's coming in second, each accounting for about 20 percent of the business.

tijuca and copacabana are the neighborhoods with the largest number of markets, each with about five percent of commercial business - ipanema offers a street fair every tuesday in praça general osório that is considered one of the largest points of commerce in the city.