Rocinha (the little field) now the biggest favela in town

Mar 21, 10

Posted by admin in Blog, Rio, Where to Go

In Portuguese, the word rocinha (pronounced ho-seen-yah) a literally means a tract of land that has been cleared for planting. It is also used colloquially to refer to any field or backwoods area and that is exactly what Rocinha was in the late 1800s. It started as a settlement near the sugar plantations where poor ranch hands and...