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Copacabana beach Copacabana beach is just one of Rio de Janeiro's many attractions and draws numerous tourists to this Brazilian city.

Copacabana

sector, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Copacabana, sector of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, occupying a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea. It is famous for its magnificent 2 1/2-mile (4-km) curved beach. Skyscraper hotels, apartment houses, cafés, nightclubs, restaurants, theaters, and bars line the waterfront. Copacabana is almost a self-contained city; its traffic congestion has been progressively eased by the construction of tunnels and a subway system to connect it with other parts of Rio de Janeiro as well as by a major landfill project that reconstructed the beach beyond a substantially widened Avenida Atlantica.

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