Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Barbosa-Rodrigues-Allee planted with royal palms ( Roystonea regia ) in the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro

The Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro ( Portuguese Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro ) is located in the Jardim Botânico district in the south of Rio de Janeiro . He was 1808 by King John VI. founded.

On an area of ​​around 140 hectares, the botanical garden is home to around 6500 species, including some threatened with extinction. The Rio Botanical Garden is among the ten most important of its kind in the world. The UNESCO declared it a Biosphere Reserve. The 128 royal palms ( Roystonea regia ) on the main avenue Barbosa Rodrigues date partly from the time the garden was created. In addition to numerous greenhouses , orchidariums and rose gardens, there is a lake with giant aquatic plants such as the largest water lily in the Amazon, the giant Amazon water lily ( Victoria amazonica), a major attraction. You can also find in the garden:

• a bromeliad house
• a greenhouse with carnivorous plants (renovated in 2004)
• the Casa dos Pilões, a former powder factory (closed since 1988 for renovations),

The Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, located in the Botanical Garden, also includes:

• a library specializing in botany with 32,000 works
• a botanical museum
• a herbarium with over 650 million herbarium specimens

Web links

Commons : Rio Botanical Garden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Botanical Garden (Portuguese)
• Homepage of the Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the special features of Rio ( Memento of December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 22 ° 58 ′ 3 ″  S , 43 ° 13 ′ 26 ″  W