Itatiaia is a Brazilian municipal district of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is located to a latitude 22º29'46" South and a longitude 44º33'48" West, being the an altitude of 390 meters. Its population in 2004 belonged to 35870 inhabitants. Ipanema beach, in the South Zone, immortalised by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Morais song The Girl from Ipanema Cristo Redentor, the famous Christ the Redeemer statue at the top of the Corcovado mountain A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in... Latitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Map of Earth showing lines of longitude, which appear curved and vertical in this projection, but are actually halves of great circles Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ...
It hosts the first brazilian National Park, called Parque Nacional do Itatiaia (PNI).
The Itaitiaia National Park is an Integral Protection Conservation Unit of the Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais (see map).
Itatiaia was created in 1937, due to an initiative of the biologist Alberto Lofgren and is the first and oldest Brazilian National Park.
Either from Visconde de Mauá or from the village of Itatiaia, there are many hiking - trails connecting the Itatiaia lowlands with the Itatiaia mountain region.
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