This content was published on February 17, 2023 – 3:45 p.m. February 17, 2023 – 3:45 p.m
Rio de Janeiro, 17 February (EFE).- The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, which starts this Friday, attracts millions of tourists every year, who enjoy the majestic parades of the Sambadrome and live a unique experience with the street troops .
A gigantic gear works all year round to give life to the most emblematic party in Brazil, which will have an unprecedented structure by 2023.
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED “SCHOOLS” PARADE
The city will have 92 samba companies parading through the two main catwalks set aside for the party and 16 more for children. The Sambadrome is reserved for the best, the 15 of the Gold Series and the 12 of the Special Group, the cream of the schools. The rest, belonging to lower categories, will roam free on Intendente Magalhaes Avenue.
A SAMBÓDROMO TO BLOW UP
The huge cement mass in which the samba schools are worshiped will have around 100,000 people, including the public, dancers and organizers, for each of the four days of the parades.
MORE THAN 400 ROAD COMPARISONS
Of the more than 600 registrations, 402 “blocos”, as the street groups are called, were admitted, bringing joy, splendor and color to various parts of the city this year, free of charge and almost a month before the carnival.
100% HOTEL OCCUPANCY
According to the city’s association of hoteliers, HoteisRío, about 96% of the hotel network was reserved for the carnival by the start of the week. The expectation is that it will reach 100% in these last few days.
ECONOMICAL INJECTION
The city expects revenue of 4.5 billion reais (about 870 million dollars), of which the street troops alone will pump around 1.2 billion reais (232 million dollars) to Rio.
MILLIONS OF PARTIES
According to figures from the mayor’s office, more than five million partygoers are expected, the majority of them in the street troops.
STREET VENDORS EVERYWHERE
Street selling will be the domain of women, who will have 5,650 of the 10,000 stalls allowed for the carnival days. The beer is most commonly offered on the streets to encourage and ‘hydrate’ partygoers.
A clean-up battalion
The Municipal Town Cleaning Company (Comlurb) committed 5,000 people to keep the town clean during the carnival period. In the Sambadrome and Mayor Magalhaes alone, 240 tons of rubbish were collected over the four days of the parade in 2021.
THOUSANDS OF PUBLIC BATHROOMS
The “folioes,” as party-goers are called in Brazil, won’t have to endure the urge to go to the bathroom, as 34,000 portable units will be spread across the city.
ORDERLY TRANSPORT
To control traffic and avoid the characteristic congestion caused by street parades, 3,250 agents have been deployed, double the number in 2020 when the “Blocos” were last paraded last year because of the Covid pandemic. Authorities will use 1,500 cones, 700 cylinders, 43 motorcycles, 30 cranes and 28 vehicles.
LIVE MONITORING
More than 4,000 city guards and 2,500 cameras, helicopters and drones will help police monitor security on the city’s streets in real time during the party in Rio de Janeiro. A powerful reinforcement will be in charge of the Militarized Police, which will deploy around 14,000 uniformed personnel across Rio State every day. EFE
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