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:''For the sportive association and football team see [[Clube de Regatas do Flamengo]]
'''Flamengo''' is the name of a neighborhood (''bairro'') in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].
It is the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] word for [[Flemish people|Flemish]], and it was given to the nearby beach (Praia do Flamengo, ''Beach of the Flemish'') because it is believed that a Belgian owned the lands in colonial times. It is located between the [[Centro (Rio de Janeiro)|Centro]] (city centre) and [[Botafogo]] districts on the edge of [[Guanabara Bay]]. The beachfront area is dominated by the "Parque do Flamengo" park, built by [[Lota de Macedo Soares]] on nearly 300 acres (1.2 km²) of land reclaimed from the bay and completed in [[1960]]. The park features gardens designed by well-known Brazilian landscape designer [[Roberto Burle Marx]].
The district is serviced by one metro station, Flamengo, and many bus lines that link it to the rest of the city. It is fairly close to the city centre and offers excellent views of [[Pão de Açúcar]] (Sugarloaf Mountain) and the statue of [[Christ the Redeemer]]. Home to many embassies and art-decó buildings, nowadays it is mostly a middle-class residential neighborhood.
Its main streets are Senador Vergueiro, Marquês de Abrantes and Paissandu, in addition to the express ways of the Aterro of Flamengo, that links the southern zone to the centre of the city.
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