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Infamy may be more like it! This is the place where millions of revelers dressed in white gather on New Year’s Eve to play and romance, and hear free concerts by major musical acts. One of the top topless beaches in the world.
- Where is Copacabana Beach? on the east coast of southern Brazil, at the Tropic of Capricorn on the Atlantic Ocean
- Coordinates: latitude» -22.9691°
longitude» -43.1798° - Water Type: saltwater
- Climate: tropical
- Development: section of a large urban area
- Length of Beach: 2.5m/4km
- Type: white sand
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Partly CloudyWind: NNE 9Kmph
Humidity: 54%
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48 Copacabana Beach Attractions, Points of Interest and Landmarks located within 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) of Copacabana Beach
- Downtown Copacabana » 0.3m/0.4km
- Museu do Indio » 1.4m/2.2km
- Downtown Botafogo » 1.4m/2.2km
- Sugar Loaf Mountain Pao de Acucar » 2.1m/3.4km
- Parque Henrique Lage » 2.2m/3.5km
- Museu Internacional de Arte Naif » 2.3m/3.8km
- Corcovado Christo Redentor » 2.4m/3.8km
- Downtown Flamengo » 2.5m/4.1km
- Platforma Theatre » 2.8m/4.6km
- Botanical Garden Jardin Botanico » 2.8m/4.6km
- Palacio do Catete » 3m/4.8km
- Church of Our Lady of the Glory of the Outeiro » 3.3m/5.3km
- Ruins Park Parque das Ruinas » 3.5m/5.7km
- Museu da Chacara do Ceu » 3.6m/5.8km
- Santa Cruz Forta » 3.6m/5.8km
- Museum of Modern Art » 3.8m/6.2km
- Arcos da Lapa » 3.9m/6.2km
- Catedral de Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro » 4m/6.5km
- Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont Airport SDU » 4.1m/6.6km
- National Library Biblioteca Nacional » 4.1m/6.6km
- Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro » 4.1m/6.6km
- National Fine Arts Museum Museu Nacional de Belas » 4.2m/6.7km
- Nova Livraria Leonardo da Vinci » 4.2m/6.8km
- Pico Fort » 4.2m/6.8km
- Sambodrome » 4.3m/6.9km
- Convent of St Anthony Convento Do Santo Antonio » 4.3m/7km
- Sao Luiz Fort » 4.4m/7.1km
- Rio Branco Fort » 4.4m/7.1km
- National History Museum Museu Historico Nacional » 4.4m/7.1km
- Praca Quinze » 4.6m/7.4km
- Church of Our Lady of the Candelaria » 4.7m/7.6km
- Sao Bento Monastery » 4.9m/7.9km
- Ilha Fiscal » 5m/8km
- Quinta da Boa Vista » 5m/8.1km
- Tijuca National Park » 5.3m/8.5km
- Museum of Contemporary Art » 5.4m/8.8km
- Estadio Mario Filho Maracana » 5.7m/9.2km
- Gavea Golf and Country Club » 5.7m/9.2km
- Museu do Acude » 6.2m/10km
- Parque da Cidade » 6.7m/10.7km
- Itanhanga Golf Club » 8.3m/13.3km
- Downtown Barra da Tijuca » 8.7m/14km
- Barra da Tijuca » 9m/14.5km
- Rio de Janeiro Antonio Carlos Jobim Intl Airport » 11.7m/18.8km
- Casa do Pontal Museum » 21.2m/34.1km
- Prainha » 21.3m/34.3km
- Sitio Roberto Burle Marx » 23.7m/38.2km
Don’t plan on a relaxing snooze in the sun on Copacabana Beach! This is a happening place with thousands of daily visitors, most of them barely clothed. The long crescent shape of the beach, with one historic fort at each end, is a spectacular view from nearby Sugarloaf Mountain, an almost eerie sight at night when the beach is lit up against the pitch dark of the ocean beyond.
Home to 160,000 people, Rio de Janeiro is a hotbed of nightclubs, hotels, bars and casinos; fun is the main sport at Copacabana Beach. The city’s architecture is stunning, especially the cool, white Copacabana Palace Hotel.
Soccer is the second top sport (after people-watching and ogling!), and this is the home of the FIFA Beach Soccer Championships. Lined with palm trees and then a peripheral arterial roadway, the beach is contained and self-sufficient with vendors hawking all sorts of trinkets and food items, and rentals of just about everything you can imagine!
Beach patrons mostly sunbathe and swim here; it’s not a strolling beach unless you have the need to strut your “stuff”, but it’s a wonderful vantage point to see ships going in and out of Rio de Janeiro harbor; you may catch a glimpse of the RMS Queen Elizabeth II in motion.
Flatter and with calmer waves than its chic neighbor, Ipanema Beach, this beach is noted for its barefoot dances, moving to the Samba rhythms. A brick boardwalk designed in the pattern of waves spans the entire length of the beach and is known as the “promenade”; here is where you go to see and be seen.
Copacabana Beach is one endless string of activity and party-mode fun, but the big event, on New Year’s Eve draws massive crowds that have been entertained by the likes of Rod Stewart, Lenny Kravitz and the Rolling Stones. Fireworks out on the water at midnight trigger partying until dawn at this high-energy, low-attire beach.
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