On each day of the official Olympic torch relay, carrying the Olympic flame to the Olympic cauldron in Rio de Janeiro, the Rio2016 Facbeook page is posting brilliant and spectacular images from one of the world’s unique and most beautiful landscapes. Each day until August 5th, we will bring you these stunning images.
The torch travelled through four more cities in São Paulo, heading about 60 km east to Sao Jose dos Campos. With the opening ceremonies just nine days away, the torch will continue heading east until it arrives in Rio de Janeiro.
It began in Suzano, which is part of the metropolitan region of São Paulo with a population of 285,000. Suzano has a large Japanese-Brazilian population, and is an important industrial center. It then headed to Mogi das Cruzes, also part of the metropolitan region of São Paulo with a population of 424,000.
It then headed to Jacarei, which is a city in the metropolitan area of the Paraiba Valley and North Coast in the state of São Paulo. It has a population of 226,000, and has been called the “Capital of Beer” and the “Motocross Capital”.
It finished the day in Sao Jose dos Campos, one of the leading industrial and research centers in Latin America. It has a population just over 530,000.
Check out the images from day 85:
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Marcos de Paula
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello