Botanical Gardens one of the world's leading found native plant of Brazil

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in the northern district Leblon, Ipanema district. The cultivation area of ​​54 hectares, there are 900 species alone palm trees and endangered species, 6,000 species and trees of tropical and subtropical plants and foreign plants native Brazil has been growing. Monument important historical, artistic, archaeological folder contains a large number of greenhouse also, there.
Its history is long and for cultivation of spices imported from the West Indies and by VI King of Portugal Joan, It was established in 1808. Cultivated plants early was what was taken from Pamplemousse Gardens of Mauritius. Carlos Antônio Napion João Gomes da Silveira Mendonça and (1808) (1808 -1819) and others has served as the director. Tea is transported from Macao in 1812, the Chinese have been hired for the cultivation. Public has started from the establishment of the Brazilian Empire in 1822.
One of the highlights, the name of Joan Baruboza Rodriguez, who served as director botanist in Brazil has an associated way of palm trees 750 meters following the Botanical Gardens. Only 40% of the park is natural forest Mata Atlantica (Atlantic Forest) remains in an artificial cultivation. Have been protected as (National History and Art heritage of Brazil, the park was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1992.
In 2008, to commemorate the 200th anniversary, cultural center and museum environment "Jobim Space" is now open. The latter comes from and is an avid supporter of the Botanical Gardens is a singer-songwriter who made the famous "Girl from Ipanema", the name of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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