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fa·ve·la

(fə-vĕl′ə)

A shantytown or slum, especially in Brazil.

[Brazilian Portuguese, after the Morro da Favela, a ramshackle housing area constructed on a hill in Rio de Janeiro in 1897 by impoverished soldiers returning from the suppression of a separatist movement in northeast Brazil, after the Morro da Favela, literally, "hill of the favela," a hill in northeast Brazil fortified by the soldiers during the conflict, from favela, the Brazilian shrub Cnidoscolus quercifolius of the spurge family bearing seeds resembling fava beans, from diminutive of Portuguese fava, fava bean, from Latin faba; see bha-bhā in Indo-European roots.]

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favela

(fɑːˈveɪlə)

(in Brazil) a shanty or shantytown

[C20: from Portuguese]

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fa•ve•la

(fəˈvɛl ə)

n., pl. -las.

a shantytown in or near a city in Brazil.

[1945–50; < Brazilian Portuguese]

favela

A Portuguese word meaning shantytown, used especially in Brazil.

Translations

фавела

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slum

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The first phase consisted of an ethnographic study conducted in two favelas in Rio de Janeiro --the Complexo do Alemao and Morro do Falet.

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Todavia, pesquisa do IBGE (2010) contabilizou a existencia de 612 favelas ano de 2000 apenas na cidade de Sao Paulo.

THE PROMISE OF A NEW HORIZON: HOW THE PROCESS OF URBANIZATION PROMOTED THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND REDUCED SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION IN A SLUM IN JUNDIAI/A PROMESSA DE UM NOVO HORIZONTE: COMO O PROCESSO DE URBANIZACAO PROMOVEU O DIREITO A CIDADE E DIMINUIU A SEGREGACAO SOCIOESPACIAL NUMA FAVELA EM JUNDIAI

Beyond the poverty, violence, drug trafficking and clashes with the military police, he says there is culture, history, and stories of civic participation and everyday people just trying to get by - tales that are too often ignored even though nearly a quarter of Rio's population, or about 1.5 million people, live in the city's 1,000 favelas.