Olá / Oi
How locals say hello in Rio de Janeiro
May–September (dry season) or Feb for Carnival
Cariocas (Rio residents) are warm and physical — hugs and cheek-kisses are normal greetings.
On New Year's Day 1502, navigator Gaspar de Lemos sailed into Guanabara Bay and mistook it for a great river — naming it Rio de Janeiro, River of January. The city was formally founded on March 1, 1565. For two centuries it was a colonial backwater until the Portuguese royal family fled Napoleon and made it the capital of their empire in 1808 — the only time a European monarch governed from the New World.
Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is struck by lightning an average of 6 times per year.
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