2016 OLYMPICS

Rio de Janeiro is the tourism gateway to Brazil. With unparalleled natural beauty and hospitable people, the city is known as the Marvelous City.

Now also the first South American country to host the Olympics after the city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen to stage the 2016 Games. Rio will hold the games from August 5-21 and its theme will be "Live your passion."

Rio de Janeiro proposes to hold all sporting events within the city limits—apart from the football tournaments which would be held in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador and São Paulo—making the Games more compact and technically feasible.

The competition venues will be located in four Olympic zones—Barra, Copacabana, Deodoro, and Maracanã—and divided in seven Olympic clusters—Barra, Copacabana, Deodoro, Flamengo, João Havelange, Lagoa and Maracanã—with four Olympic precincts—Maracanã, Olympic Park, Riocentro and X Park.

The Olympic and Paralympic Village complex will include an Olympic Village Training Center, an Olympic Village Park, an Olympic Beach and direct access to the Olympic Park.

NUMBER OF VENUES: 34 (including the main Olympic stadium); 18 already in place, nine will be built permanently and seven will be built temporarily.