Rio Flashcards
(19 cards)
Where is Rio
Rio de Janeiro is situated on Brazil’s Atlantic coast at 23°S and 43°W.
Importance of Rio
Brazil’s second most
important industrial
centre, producing
5 per cent of Brazil’s GDP
A major port – main exports
are coffee, sugar and iron ore
Rio hosted matches
during the 2014 World
Cup and hosted the
2016 Olympic Games.
Global city
Population of Rio
2014 - 12.5 million (including surrounding areas)
Second largest after Sao Paulo
Challenges in Rio (health care)
Six hospital (better than rural ares)
Only 55% of people in Rio have a health clinic in 2013
Poor serves pregenant woman and elderly very poor
Solution to chalanges in regards to healthcare
- Santa Marta favela
- Steep hillside
- population 8000
- Few roads
- Main servis is health cart
- 13km from nearest hospital
Solution
- Medical staff took health kits to peoples homes
- As a result infant mortality has fallen
Challenges with education
- 25% of poorest children do not go to school
- Only half of children continue education after 14
Solutions to education
- encouraging local people to volunteer to
help in school - giving school grants to poor families to help
meet the cost of keeping their children in
school - opening a private university in Rocinha
favela.
Chalenges with water supply
- City has largest water treatment work in south america
- Only 12 percent of population do not have access to running water
- 37 percent of water lost from leaky pipes
Solution in terms of chalanges with water
- Seven new treatment plants built
- 300km of pipes laid
Chalanges with energy
- City suffers frequent blackouts due to shortage of electricty
- Growing population and 2016 olympics made it worse
- Many people get electricity by illegaly tapping wires
Solutions to electricty
- Installing 60km of new power linesc
- Building a new nuculear generator
- New hydroeletric complex which will increases Rio’s supply of electricity by30 percent
- 6 years to build 2 billion
Chalange of Crime
- In 2013 Pacifying Police
Units (UPPs) were
established to reclaim
favelas from drug dealers. - Police have taken control of
crime-dominated Complexo
do Alemão and 30
smaller favelas.
Rios enviromental issues Trafic conjestion
Steep mountans - roads only built lowland
Number of cars increased by 40 percent in the last decade
High crime makes people want to go by car
Sollution to conjestion
- Expansion of metro system
- New roads
- coastal roads one way
Water pollution chalanges
- 55 rivers poluted
- 200 tones of raw sewage pours into bay each day
- Oil spills
Water chalanges solution
- 12 new sewage works
- 5km of new sewage pipes
Chalanges with waste polution
steep slopes make hard to access water
Most waste is dumped into sewage system
Solution to waste pollution
Powerplant set up which uses (biomas) from rotting rubbish.
Consumes 30 tonnes of rubbish and produces enough energy for 1000 homes per day
Where are favellas located
60 percent in suburbs
22 percent of population lives in favelas
