Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Year

1808

Type

landscape

Founded in 1808 by Prince Regent Joao VI to acclimatize spices from the East Indies, the botanical garden covers 137 hectares at the foot of Corcovado, its collections growing from colonial economic botany into one of the world's most impor …

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