Santa Cruz (Rio de Janeiro)

Santa Cruz is a heavily populated district with 191 836 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. Santa Cruz is home to the 19th Administrative Region Rios, which also include Paciência and Sepetiba and lies about 60 km west of the center of Rio de Janeiro.

Infrastructure

It is crossed by the S-Bahn Central do Brasil and has a varied landscape with rural, commercial, residential and industrial areas on. The population consists mostly of middle and lower layer with low income. Economically important is the harbor of the nearby Itaguaí.

History

Santa Cruz is over 444 years old, came from a farm and founded in 1567.

Gallery

Residence of Senator Julio Cesario de Mello

Fountain of Wallace de Santa Cruz

The Zeppelin shipyard

Monument to the fourth centenary of Santa Cruz

Planetarium of the City of Children

Palace of the Princess Isabel

ThyssenKrupp Steel Mill

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