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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the southeast coast of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is on its southwest shore.
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Examples
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This is incredible both for its architecture spacious concrete-and-glass design by Affonso Reidy and its location alongside Guanabara Bay, which is enough to take your breath away.
Rio de Janeiro 2012
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Christ the King's setting is less majestic than the sweeping views of Rio and Guanabara Bay surrounding the mountaintop perch of Christ the Redeemer, which was completed in 1931.
Come Ye: Poland's Big Jesus Statue Draws Pilgrims, Chafes Nonbelievers Gordon Fairclough 2011
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Grab a cold beer and a few nibbles from the selection on offer at the enormous counter, cross the street and sit on the sea wall, watch the fishermen come in and look across the water to Guanabara Bay and Christ the Redeemer.
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I wanted to see the effects of an oil spill years later, so I came to Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro.
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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Of the 6,000 fishermen who used to fish Guanabara Bay, only about 2,000 are left, da Silva said.
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company responsible for the spill in 2000, has invested over $200m in the last decade in environmental and social projects in Guanabara Bay.
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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It was here 10 years ago that 1.3 million litres of oil leaked from an underwater pipeline smothering in oil birds, sandy beaches, and much of the mangrove swaps that surround Guanabara Bay.
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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"The spill in 2000 on Guanabara Bay was one of the most serious and severe accidents in the environmental history of Brazil," Breno Herrera, the head of the federal governments environment office that oversees Guanabara Bay, told me recently during an interview.
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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Guanabara Bay is legendary in Rio de Janeiro for its pollution, unrelated to the oil spill 10 years ago.
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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Alexandre Anderson runs a local association fighting for rights of fishermen on the bay and he told me buyers will only pay less than half the market value of the fish from Guanabara Bay because of the stigma of the fish "being contaminated."
Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On Gabriel Elizondo 2010
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