The way d' water n' was not a large river, c' was a Bay island-studded which the Tamoio people had for a long time called of Guanabara - " arm of the sea”. Nearly five centuries later, at the same time the indigenous and European names persist. But now, instead of caravels and the shelters, the giant and sailing tankers slip along the splendid wearing of balloon in bay form of Guanabara. This document n' is more one desert tropical grouillant of tapirs and the jaguars, of the west coasts of bay now hold a metropolis howling of Rio de Janeiro - the River of January.

The large bay which resembled a river n' was qu' one of the many illusions that Rio held. Europeans called smaller bay of Botafago, under the terms of Sugarloaf, a “lake”, Tamoio themselves named Guanabara Bay borders Eastern Niteroi, which means “hidden water”. For the first European travellers, they were like if, when Hove Rio in sight, the curtain rises on a stage set with the so strange ones, striking forms and the forms that almost all l' air d' another thing.

Who keeps l' entered of bay, the mountain naked and unbalanced the Portuguese called CAM of Açucar evoked the sugar loafs worked on l' Madeira. They called more the Corcovado high mountain - " Bossu" - for its profile of uneven. Aujourd' today, a statue of Christ redeemer of crowns of 2300 high foot-peak. L' vastness of bay decreased. With grounds usable with a premium, the setting in discharge was twice modified contours of Guanabara Bay.
In the years 1920 and again in the years 1960, of the small hills which had formerly been at the house with the first colonists of Rio were sluice by pipes to create Bayfill. New ground now d' anchors to an airport, a motorway with six ways, parks and beaches, museum d' modern art of the city, and d' other monuments of the 20th century as Rio turns to its bay large room bends.