Guapimirim


Guapimirim, is a city in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area, and a municipality located in Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil.

Geography

It is on Guanabara Bay, 84 kilometers north of the city of Rio de Janeiro, at an altitude of 48 meters.
The population of Guapimirim was 51,487 in 2010, and its area is 361 km². It is the 37th most populous municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The municipality is located in a valley at the base of the Finger of God peak in the Organ Mountains. It borders the municipalities of: Teresópolis and Petrópolis, Itaboraí, Waterfalls Macacu, and Magé and Guanabara Bay.

Conservation

The municipality contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic, created in 2006.
It held 24% of the Paraíso Ecological Station, created in 1987 and now integrated into the Três Picos State Park.
It contains 4% of the Três Picos State Park, created in 2002.
It contains part of the Bacia do Rio Macacu Environmental Protection Area, created in 2002.
The municipality contains the Guapi-Guapiaçú Environmental Protection Area, created in 2004.
It contains 42% of the Guanabara Ecological Station, created in 2006.

Features

Seventy percent of its territory is within the Guapimirim Environmental Protection Area, a coastal marine nature preserve also in the municipalities of Itaboraí, Magé, and São Gonçalo.
Guapimirim Municipality, together with the municipalities of Petrópolis, Teresópolis, Freiburg, Mage, Sao Jose do Rio Preto Valley, Three Rivers, Commander Levy Gasparian, Areal, and Waterfalls Macacu — make up the tourist region known as Imperial Green Mountain.