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Piscinão de Ramos

Brazilians embrace at Piscinão de Ramos, an artifical lake next to Guanabara Bay.

Banned from the beach for pollution, these Brazilians brought beach culture to a lake

Culture

This Brazilian beach doesn’t bring a song to mind and it’s not in the brochures at the tourism office. But Piscinão de Ramos, or “big pool of Ramos,” is where thousands of Brazilians — prevented from accessing the actual beaches at Guanabara Bay because of the pollution — relax away their hour.