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n. A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil
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A favela is a slum in Brazil within urban areas. The first favelas appeared in the late 19th century and were built by soldiers who had nowhere to live. Some of the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighbourhoods). 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 ended up 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. This means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people that lived in the country resided in areas of irregular occupation definable by lack of public services or urbanization, referred to by the IBGE as "subnormal agglomerations".
'Favela ' is a 1960 Argentine film.
Favela may refer to:
- Favela, a colloquial name for a Brazilian slum neighborhood
- Favela, an instrumental composition by Antonio Carlos Jobim from The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Usage examples of "favela".
In some cities, half the population lived in the sprawling favela colonies.
For there were more favela slums here, massive ones whose population rivaled that of the city proper.
Latin gentleman of wealth and position who had taken for his own the plight of the favela poor and the landless peasants.
The Third World does not really disappear in the process of unification of the world market but enters into the First, establishes itself at the heart as ghetto, shantytown, favela, always again produced and reproduced.
Thus they were unemployed, and had to be evicted, and new favelas replaced the old ones, sprouting up like mushrooms.
The main difference was that the favelas were no longer along tourist routes.
It was translated into English, too, and had more effect on the favelas than an atomic bomb-burst.
She lived in one of the favelas near the city, supporting her aging parents and feebleminded brother.
Oba had explained something about the favelas, by gesture and pantomime, as we had had plenty of time to exchange communications.
Many students were living in corrugated-metal favelas, and others had to endure the mass living in the crumbling dormitories on the other side of the campus.
Raul had taken her from the residences of the fortunate to the favelas, the shanty towns built of abandoned bits of wood and metal and cardboard, scattered through and around Rio.
Perhaps a policeman had been killed up in one of the favelas, and they were exacting revenge.
Many students were living in corrugated-metal favelas, and others had to endure the mass living in the crumbling dormitories on the other side of the campus.
Raul had taken her from the residences of the fortunate to the favelas, the shanty towns built of abandoned bits of wood and metal and cardboard, scattered through and around Rio.