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Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
In Brazil on the Atlantic coast is the city of Rio de Janeiro, a Mecca for shipping travel and tourism. The harbor in Rio de Janeiro was constructed over the course of the past few hundred years and has built up into a very crowded area; however the mountains that break up through the water remain mostly untouched by man, as they give the area its natural beauty and wonder.
There are commonly thousands of small vessels in the Harbor at any given time and it is a very popular tourist attraction to see the mountains and sometimes climb them. In addition to this it also hosts Christ the Redeemer, a statue on the Corcovado and considered as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. One of the most common features in and around the Harbor are the granite domes, which give the formations the unique shapes seen today – granite is pushed up this way through natural mountain building from previous volcanic activity.
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