an extended amount of competitions hosted by internationally-known companies also use the marveous city as the designated venue - these contests occur annually internchangeably between beach cities around the world, and seeing as rio de janerio state is a popular surfing destination, it is no surpirse to see a variety of contests taking place throughout the year - for instance rip curl gromsearch and billabong 2014, are two events held in the city.

a convenient to known what is going on in the surfing world in the city of rio de janiero is by checking local surfing magazines and newspapers - surfar is a magazine specialized in communicating all the latest information in surfing in all of brazil, utilizing their official website as a platform as well as smartphone application, which can easily be downloaded for apple and android devices - they can be reached via telephone at 21 2433.0235 / 2480.4206, or via contact email.