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Ilha do Campinho Beach

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Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
Ilha do Campinho Beach
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Barra Grande, State of Bahia, Brazil

Governador Island is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a population of about 211,018 inhabitants, in a small area of 42 km2 . Rio de Janeiro's main airport, Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport, and the Galeão Air Force Base are located on Governador Island and occupy about a third of it, in the western and northwestern parts. A small sea inlet that once existed on the northwestern shore was landfilled to build the airport's runway 10/28, thereby increasing the island's area. Often mentioned by cariocas simply as Ilha , Governador Island has some favelas, such as the pacified Morro do Dendê, the largest one, but it also has many middle-class neighborhoods and even the third better IDH index in the city, the Jardim Guanabara neighborhood. The island is connected to Fundão Island and to the mainland by a complex of expressway bridges and through a barge in Cocotá Terminal, transporting passengers to downtown in Rio. The name means Governor's Island because one of the first colonial governors of Brazil built a country house on the island in the 16th century. The native name for the island in Old Tupi was Paranapuã, which means sea branch. People from Governador Island suffer from high pollution from Guanabara Bay. Although surrounded by beaches, many of them have become inappropriate for usage even though the bay has been cleaned up in recent years for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The island is home to only one professional football club, A.A. Portuguesa. Its home is Estádio Luso Brasileiro, which in recent years has been expanded so it can be used professionally by Botafogo, as Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, its normal home, is being used for Olympic purposes.
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