Paquetá Island (Portuguese: Ilha de Paquetá) is an island in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. 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 The name of the island is a Tupi word meaning "many shells", a reference to the plentiful shells on the island's beaches. The island is an auto-free zone, so travel is limited to bicycles and horse-drawn carriages. Car-free zones (also known as auto-free zones and pedestrian zones) are areas of a city or town in which automobile traffic is prohibited
Paquetá has twenty baobabs, a type of African tree - the only ones in Brazil beside the Baobà in Passeio Público in Fortaleza. Baobab is the common name of a Genus ( Adansonia) containing eight species of Trees native to Madagascar (having six species mainland One of them is called "Maria Gorda" (Fat Maria), which residents kiss for luck.
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