"Rio de Janeiro" - Brazil

My presentation to my classmates is about Rio de Janeiro, the city where I was born and lived in my home country. Rio was founded on January 20, 1501. The Portuguese thought the bay in front of the place was a river, so they named the city "Rio de Janeiro" (River of January). It is a beautiful city, with many beach of clear sand, such as Copacabana, famous all over the world; Ipanema Beach, inspiration for the song "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema); Leblon; Sao Conrado; and Barra da Tijuca, the last of  which once where I lived for many years, in front of the ocean of clear and crystalline water, and, whenever possible, I walked the sidewalk for many kilometers. Rio has a huge "urban forest", the Tijuca Forest, the biggest in the world. It is also the land of carnival and soccer. Rio will be home to the Summer Olympic Games in 2016, and Brazil as a whole will have the Soccer World Cup in 2014, with many games in Rio.