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In early 16^th century, Portuguese explorers who sailed along the coast line of Brazil’s coast they kept the track of their discoveries and they given those names by names of days to mention them. On very 1^st day of year 1502 they moved smoothly toward a narrow opening in the coastline, guarded by fabulously shaped mountains.  Behind this entrance lay a body of water stretching 20 miles inland. When they realized that they had reached to the mouth of a great river they named the Area River of the First of January.

Actually that was not the river it was an island-studded bay that the Tamoio people had long before named Guanabara, which means,  “arm of the sea”.

Even now after centuries passed its both native and European names persist. There is only one thing changed that’s now instead of caravels and dugouts, supertankers and yachts glide across the magnificent balloon-shaped harbor of Guanabara Bay. On the western shore of the bay there is the capital city named as Rio de Janeiro means the River of January.

It looked like a river that was one of the false impressions, which that Rio held. It was given so many named as Europeans called it a smaller bay of Botafago, under Sugarloaf, a “lake” and the Tamoio named it Guanabara Bay’s eastern edge Niteroi, that means hidden waters.

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