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Definitions of favela in various dictionaries:
A shantytown or slum, especially in Brazil.
noun - a slum area
FAVELA - A favela (Portuguese pronunciation: [fvl]), Brazilian Portuguese for slum, is a low-income historically informal urban area in Brazil. The first fave...
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| A shantytown or slum, especially in Brazil. |
| a Brazilian shack or shanty town a slum. |
| a very poor and crowded area of a city in Brazil |
| A Brazilian shack or shanty town a slum. |
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| Favela, Ceara, BRAZIL |
| Favela, Bahia, BRAZIL |
| Favela, Rondonia, BRAZIL |
| Favela, Rio Grande do Norte, BRAZIL |
| Favela, Paraiba, BRAZIL |
| Favela, Pernambuco, BRAZIL |
| Favela description |
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| A favela (Portuguese pronunciation: [fvl]), Brazilian Portuguese for slum, is a low-income historically informal urban area in Brazil. The first favela, now known as Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro, appeared in the late 19th century, built by soldiers who had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods). Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people found themselves in favelas. Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in slums. In areas of irregular oc |