Sugar Loaf Mountain

British  

noun

1. Portuguese name: Pão de Açúcar.  a mountain in SE Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro on Guanabara Bay. Height: 390 m (1280 ft)

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Example Sentences

He impressed classmates—one of whom was Lauro Müller—when he climbed Sugar Loaf mountain, scaling it with only a rope.

From Literature

During a brief visit to Rio de Janeiro, taking in Sugar Loaf mountain, Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, and dutifully drinking cool caipirinhas, my heart was really elsewhere – 1,200km inland to Brasília in the central plateau to be precise.

From The Guardian

Sitting at a desk all day, it’s easy to start feeling like a brainless polyp, whereas walking and talking, as we are this morning, while admiring the Great Sugar Loaf mountain rising beyond the city and a Huguenot cemetery formed in 1693, our minds are fizzing.

From The Guardian

Sugar Loaf Mountain is about 11 miles away.

From Washington Post

Rescue teams in Brazil have retrieved the bodies of six people from coastal rocks at the foot of Rio de Janeiro's famous Sugar Loaf mountain.

From BBC