Rocinha is the largest favela in Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro between São Conrado and Gávea. It is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio and home to around 69,161 residents. While Rocinha began as a rural area supplying produce to markets, it has grown into a dense urban community with over 100,000 residents living in tightly packed homes and shanties up to 11 stories tall. The 2014 World Cup brought tourism and happiness to residents who got to see players, but living conditions remain challenging due to poverty and lack of space in the crowded landscape.

1. Where is Rochina???
Reece

2. Rocinha is known as the little farm and is the
largest favela in Brazil, and is located in Rio de
Janeiro's South Zone between the districts of São
Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside
overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one
kilometre from a nearby beach. Most of the favela is on a
very steep hill, with many trees surrounding it. 69,161
(census 2010) people live in Rocinha, making it the most
populous favela in Brazil.

3. This is some of the history of Rochina.
No one knows where and when the name Rocinha
emerged, but the most likely theory is that in the
1920s there was a famous open air market in
what is today the Santos Dumont Plaza in Gávea.
The middle class and elite who bought their fresh
produce there would ask the vendors where the
produce came from and they would answer that
they came from their ‘little farm’ or Rocinha
(Rocinha: Plano de Desenvolvimento Sustentável
2011).

4. Being the largest favela in the whole of Brazil, Rocinha’s population is around 100,000 people. In
fact, the people of Rocinha have made it into a small city with businesses such as shops, schools and
entertainment.
Compared from the traditional idea of a favela or a slum, Rocinha has much more than the basics
including, T.V, electricity and basic sanitation needs. And rather than the homes being built from
sticks and whatever materials come at hand, Rocinha is made from concrete and bricks.
These are the opportunities of living in Rochina

5. These are some of the challenges of living in Rochina
The community has a population estimated at anywhere between 100 and 200
thousand people, who live squeezed into a steep and rugged landscape of only
(0.80) square miles. Within this highly dense community the majority of people
live in conditions of abject or near abject poverty, residing in small shanties
stacked one on top of another, sometimes as many as tall as 7, 8, 9, and even
11 stories tall.

6. The effect the world cup had on Rochina
The world cup 2014 would have a big affect on Rochina
because it has brung lots of tourism to rio/Rochina as the
stadiums are now open to visit and would be a very very
good site to see.
It has also made the residents happier because they got to
see some of the players that played in the world cup.

7. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rio_De_Janiero_location_map.svg#
mediaviewer/File:Rio_De_Janiero_location_map.svg
The link for the pic on slide 2.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/23/favela-residents-
world-cup-home-stays-fans
Picture on slide four.
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/more-world-
stories/story/slumming-it-10-famous-slums-the-world-visit-if-you-dare-
20140724
The link to the picture on slide 5.
http://www.thenational.ae/sport/world-cup-2014/in-pictures-sturridge-
welbeck-and-england-visit-rocinha-favela
Link to picture on slide 6
http://www.desktopwallpapers4.me/digital-art/world-map-9261/
Link to picture on slide 1