Governador Island is the largest Island in Guanabara Bay

Governador Island (Ilha do Governador, in Portuguese) is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Governador Island ( Ilha do Governador, in Portuguese is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Portuguese, Baía da Guanabara is an oceanic Bay located in southeastern Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro ("River of January" ˈhiw dʒi ʒʌˈnejɾu in Brazilian Portuguese, /ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛroʊ/ in English is the second largest city of Brazil |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld It has a population of about 450,000 inhabitants, in a small area of 42 km² (16 square miles).

Rio de Janeiro's main airport, Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport, is located on Governador Island and occupies about a third of it, in the western and northwestern parts. An airport is a location where Aircraft such as airplanes, Helicopters and blimps take off and land Rio de Janeiro/Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport better known as Galeão International Airport is Rio de Janeiro 's major international A small sea inlet that once existed on the northwestern shore was landfilled to build the airport's runway 10/28, thereby increasing the island's area a little bit. For other uses see Water treatment and Land reclamation. A landfill, also known as a dump (and historically as A runway ( RWY) is a strip of land on an Airport, on which Aircraft can take off and land.

Often mentioned by cariocas (inhabitants of Rio city) simply as Ilha ("island"), Governador Island has lots of favelas, such as Morro do Dendê, the largest one, but it also has many middle-class and even a few more affluent neighbourhoods. Carioca ( is a Portuguese Adjective or Demonym word that refers to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Favela (Portuguese and Spanish for slum) is a specifically Brazilian word for a Shanty town. The island is connected to Fundão Island and to the mainland by a complex of expressway bridges.

The name means "Governor's Island," because one of the first colonial governors of Brazil built a country house there in the 16th century. The native name for the island in Old Tupi was Paranapuã, which means "sea branch. Old Tupi or Classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who lived close "

People from Governador Island suffer from the high pollution of Guanabara Bay.