Del Castilho | |
Settlement Type: | Neighborhood |
Pushpin Map: | Brazil Rio de Janeiro#Brazil |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Rio de Janeiro |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Brazil |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Rio de Janeiro (RJ) |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality/City |
Subdivision Name2: | Rio de Janeiro |
Subdivision Type3: | Zone |
Subdivision Name3: | North Zone |
Area Total Km2: | 1.44 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 15,610 |
Timezone: | BRST |
Utc Offset: | -2[2] |
Coordinates: | -22.8797°N -43.2725°W |
Elevation M: | 21[3] |
Elevation Ft: | 68.8 |
Del Castilho is a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many of the streets are named after impressionist artists, such as Van Gogh and Renoir.
Toward the end of the 18th century, the land that is today Del Castilho was owned by Dom José Joaquim Castelo Branco, the first bishop of Rio de Janeiro.[4] No one truly knows where the name originated, but the most common theory is that it came from a Spaniard named Henrique de Castile, and that the baptism was performed by Paulo de Frontin, a politician and engineer who would have honored a friend when the train station opened in 1898.