Rio de Janeiro Neighborhoods Safety The tourist area – known as Zona Sul (the South Zone) – is generally safe, although exercise caution when walking around at night, especially downtown ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Shootings in the greater Rio de Janeiro metro area dropped nearly 24 percent in 2019, according to data published Thursday. There were 7,363 shootings in 2019, down from ...

Rio de Janeiro Metro, also referred to as Metro Rio, is a partially underground railway network that was launched for operations in 1979. ... The upgrade project will extend line 1 of the metro ...

Rio de Janeiro's underground system has rolled out contactless payments in a partnership with Visa and other local and international providers. The technology is in place across all of Metro Rio's ...

Shootings in the greater Rio de Janeiro metro area dropped nearly 24 percent in 2019, according to data published Thursday. There were 7,363 shootings in 2019, down from 9,642 in 2018, according ...

The Rio subway system is cheap, clean and easy to navigate. Single subway tickets are priced at 6.90reais (about $1.40) and doesn't expire after purchase. A variety of metro-bus combination ticket ...