- Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro (as well as in Brazil and the second largest slum and shanty town in Latin America).
- Home to millions of low-income residents, favelas have long been synonymous with the daily struggles of poverty, crime, and inadequate infrastructure.
- Armed drug traffickers who controlled the favelas for decades have been driven out and pacifying police units established.
- During 1940s and 1950s, the people from rural parts of Brazil came to make their fortune in the big cities and settled down in Favelas near the cities.
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- Rio's Favelas are changing. With the pacifying of the favelas it is opening up a new world of tourism in a once gang ravaged area.
- Because of the high land values and the enormous demand for space, these poor are forced into squatter settlements known as favelas.
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- Although precise figures are difficult to determine, some 2 million people, about 20% of Rio’s population, live in 1000 neighbourhoods known as favelas.
