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Rio-Niterói Bridge
13 km box-girder giant striding across Guanabara Bay: the longest bridge in the Southern Hemisphere at its opening in 1974, with sweeping views of Rio's skyline.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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Itaboraí
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · South America
About Itaboraí
Itaboraí sits on the route: 30 minutes from Tanguá, 34km from Rio-Niterói Bridge.
Itaboraí is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with about 240,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Tanguá, about 15 km away.
Itaboraí (pronounced [itɐboɾaˈi] it-ə-BOR-ə-EE) is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which belongs to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area. It was founded in 1672. In 2025, it had a population of 240,127.
Around the year 1000, Tupi-speaking peoples from the valleys of the Madeira and Xingu rivers, on theRead more
right bank of the Amazon River, invaded most of the current Brazilian coast, expelling its previous inhabitants, speakers of languages belonging to the Macro-Jê linguistic trunk, to the interior of the continent. In the 16th century, when the Portuguese arrived in the Guanabara Bay region, it was occupied by one of these Tupi peoples: the Tupinambás, also called Tamoios.
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What is there to see near Itaboraí?
Within an hour or so of Itaboraí: Rio-Niterói Bridge (34 km), Museu do Amanhã (37 km), Confeitaria Colombo (37 km), Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) (38 km).
Where is Itaboraí?
Itaboraí is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about 15 km from Tanguá.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 240,040
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro
- Timezone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Coordinates
- -22.7444, -42.8594
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Worth the detour from Itaboraí
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Museu do Amanhã
Science museum by Santiago Calatrava on Rio's revitalised Praça Mauá waterfront, adjacent to the port district drive.
37 km · about 40 min drive
cafe
Confeitaria Colombo
An 1894 Rio patisserie of Belgian mirrors, Portuguese tiles and jacaranda cabinets, built when the city was flush with coffee money and still serving pastel de nata under a vast stained-glass skylight.
37 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar)
A granite peak rising 396 meters from Guanabara Bay, reached by cable car with sweeping views of Rio's beaches, mountains, and cityscape.
38 km · about 45 min drive
photogenic
Escadaria Selaron
A staircase between Lapa and Santa Teresa covered by Chilean artist Jorge Selaron in over 2,000 tiles sent from 60 countries, worked on daily from 1990 until his death in 2013.
38 km · about 45 min drive
tunnel
Rebouças Tunnel
Twin-bore road tunnel under the Tijuca massif linking Rio's South Zone to the North Zone, about 2.8 kilometres long.
41 km · about 50 min drive
beach
Copacabana Beach
Rio de Janeiro's legendary four-kilometre stretch of sand framed by dramatic mountains and buzzing with energy.
42 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Christ the Redeemer
Towering 30-metre Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ atop Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
43 km · about 50 min drive
Driving roads near Itaboraí
- 34 kmRio-Niterói Bridge13 km box-girder giant striding across Guanabara Bay: the longest bridge in the Southern Hemisphere at its opening in 1974, with sweeping views of Rio's skyline.
- 38 kmSugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar)A granite peak rising 396 meters from Guanabara Bay, reached by cable car with sweeping views of Rio's beaches, mountains, and cityscape.
- 41 kmRebouças TunnelTwin-bore road tunnel under the Tijuca massif linking Rio's South Zone to the North Zone, about 2.8 kilometres long.
- 47 kmVista ChinesaA pagoda-style belvedere built in 1903 in the Tijuca forest, giving a framed view over the Lagoa, Corcovado, Ipanema and Sugarloaf. Reachable by car on the Estrada da Vista Chinesa.
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