Favela (Portuguese: [fɐˈvɛlɐ]) is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil.

2025年1月4日 · favela, in Brazil, a slum or shantytown located within or on the outskirts of the country’s large cities, especially Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. A favela typically comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials.

This is a list of favelas in Brazil. This Portuguese word is commonly used in Brazil. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Favelas—Slums in Brazil.

2017年4月25日 · There are many favelas existing around the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. A Favela exists when homeless p eople or squatters occupy vacant plots of land, and build their homes out of things they can get scavenging. Today, millions of Brazilians live in these mazes of shanties.

2025年1月3日 · What are Brazil favelas? Favelas are informal settlements in Brazil, often found on the outskirts of major cities like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These communities emerged due to rapid urbanization and a lack of affordable housing.

Many favelas were located on precious inner city land in Rio’s most affluent neighborhoods, making them ripe territory for lucrative commercial and residential construction ventures.

2023年3月15日 · Case in point: favelas are more dangerous than the rest of the city, but they're also creative and cultural hubs of the country, producing the best sambistas, rappers and funkeiros, along with top artists, athletes and entrepreneurs.

2024年10月8日 · We take a look into the history of Rio de Janeiro's infamous favelas, and get to grips with why they are there and which ones are safest for tourists.

2014年12月3日 · Welcome to the favelas, slums so underserved that they maintain a state of cold war with Brazilian officials. In every conurbation in Brazil, all across the country, there exists a separate state-within-a-state that houses over 11 million of the nation’s poor.

2024年1月24日 · RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead of the previous term “subnormal agglomerates” that was widely viewed as stigmatizing.