Bangu (neighborhood) - Brasil

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Bangu is a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, RJ. It is a lower-middle-class neighborhood. It is located in the western area of the city being one of the most populated districts, with 244,518 inhabitants (according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE - Demographic Census 2000) [1] distributed in an area of 4570.69 ha. Located in the geographic center of the city, the neighborhood is close to Campo Grande, Senador Camará, Vila Aliança, Padre Miguel and Realengo. On November 22, 2004 the mayor of Rio de Janeiro César Maia created by decree the district Gericinó. The neighborhood was originally part of the neighborhood of Bangu, the region where is located the penitentiary of Bangu, besides the Dump of Bangu. The region is where is Gericinó was located where the sub-district of the Aqueduct (Aqueduct of the Seine). That is, since 2004, the complex of Bangu and Dump of Bangu, no longer belong to the neighborhood of Bangu.

The neighborhood is well known for high temperatures in the summer, exceeding 40°C. Until today, the official record lowest temperature ever recorded in the city of Rio de Janeiro took place in Campo dos Afonsos (4.8°C) in July 1928, and the highest in Bangu (43.2 °C) in January 1984.

In the sport, its chief representative is the Bangu Atlético Clube, State champion twice (1933 and 1966), Brazilian Vice-Champion 1985 World Champion and 1960 State champion (Series B) in 1911, 1914 and 2008. Besides the Bangu, we can cite the Ceres Futebol Clube, State champion (Series C) in 1990 and the Esperança Futebol Clube, Carioca champion (Series C) in 1918.

In samba, we can cite the Estados Unidos de Bangu, that is a pioneer in the carnival, and the fourth oldest samba school in Brazil. It is the godmother of Scholars of Santa Cruz.

Participated for a few years of the Special Group of Carnival. And it's bi-champion of the Carioca Carnaval in 1957 and 1962 (Group A), the school made her last carnival in 1998. There is also the Unidos da Vila Kennedy, champion in 2000 (Group C).

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Etymology

The word Bangu has two different meanings. It is a word of Tupi language origin, meaning black rampart or black wall, and it is also a word derivative from the African bangüê, which was the name given by the slaves to the mill where the sugar cane's bagasse was stored.

History

Statue of Liberty in Miami Square, Bangu

In 1673, Manuel de Barcelos Domingues built in his farm, named Fazenda Bangu, a private chapel, called Paróquia de Nossa Senhora do Desterro de Campo Grande. In this location started the first economical activity of the place, with the foundation of the Engenho da Serra, which was a sugar cane mill.

In 1889, the Companhia Progresso Industrial do Brasil, founded on February 6 of that year, bought several farms, including Fazenda Bangu, and the construction of a factory in the place started. The sugar cane farming was replaced by the cotton farming. At this time, there was only one street in the region, named Estrada Real de Santa Cruz, used by the Jesuits.

In 1890, the Bangu railway station was inaugurated, stimulating the neighborhood's growth and development. Bangu became a proletarian neighborhood, exporting fabric to Europe.

On March 8, 1893, the Fábrica de Tecidos Bangu (Bangu Fabrics Factory) is inaugurated, with the presence of the country's vice-president, Floriano Peixoto and the Federal District's mayor. The factory was a major textile player in Brazil and the world throughout the 20th Century, making the name "Tecidos Bangu" a well known household name.

After 1900, several streets were built, and the first school, called Marco Seis was inaugurated.

In 2004, part of Bangu was separated from its original area and became a new neighborhood named Gericinó.

On October 30, 2007, a major shopping mall named Bangu Shopping started its operation in the same building previously occupied by Fábrica de Tecidos Bangu, now located in the city of Petrópolis, also in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Bangu Penitentiary Complex

The Bangu Penitentiary Complex is a maximum security prison, composed of 17 penal unities. Nine of them are penitentiaries (only the Talavera Bruce is a women's prison), one is a penal institute, four are safehouses, one is a penal sanatorium and there are two hospitals.

Fernandinho Beira-Mar, a Brazilian drug lord, was held in the Bangu Penitentiary Complex from 2001 to 2003, before being transferred to a Presidente Prudente prison.

Sports

Bangu Atlético Clube is a traditional football club based in the neighborhood and founded in 1904. The club plays its home matches at Estádio Moça Bonita, inaugurated in 1947.

Ceres Futebol Clube, founded in 1933, is another neighborhood's city club. Ceres plays its home matches at Estádio João Francisco dos Santos.

Croatian international footballer and current Shakhtar Donetsk star Eduardo da Silva is originally from Bangu and lived there before moving to Croatia as a 16-year-old.

  1. ^ (Portuguese) Secretaria Municipal do Governo
  2. ^ (Portuguese) Câmara dos Deputados
  3. ^ (Portuguese) Beira-Mar é transferido para presídio em SP - Terra (February 27, 2003)
  4. ^ (Croatian) Bio bih u divljim ligama Brazila da nisam došao u Dinamo - Jutarnji.hr (January 13, 2008)