250'000 people live in Rocinha
There are about two miles between Copacabana and Rocinha in Brazil.
Rocinha is the largest favela in Brazil and is located in Rio de Janeiro's South Zone between Sao Conrado and Gavea. In Rocinha one can buy things such as daily essentials and food.
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If you mean Rocinha then it is the favela in Rio de Janeiro It has a estimated population of 60000 to 150000. It is located in Rio's south zone between the districts of Sao Conrado and Gavea.
It depends really what the families can afford. Some favelas are made of long wooden chunks and if people are a bit more richer, they can afford bricks and concrete. Harldy any favelas have electricity or piped water. Rocinha in Brazil has shantys stacked on top of another.
A study that ended in June found that in Rocinha - Rio de Janeiro has about 100,000 inhabitants and Heliopolis in Sao Paulo has 80 million inhabitants, one of the largest in Brazil. Bringing together all the Brazilian slums according to the IBGE in Brazil are 6.5 million worldwide, despite being difficult to classify and quantify these realities
People migrate to Rio de Janeiro to make a living, people try and earn money by getting jobs. They hope to get good jobs, a nice house and a good education for their children. However, only a minority of these people actually have this success, most of the people end up poor and living in favelas in the shanty towns.
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