Queimados is a city of 152,000 people (2021) in Baixada Fluminense, region of Grande Rio.

Understand

Nossa Senhora da Conceição Square, in the city center

Queimados is a former district of Nova Iguaçu (it was split from it in 1990), and now a municipality of the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro. It is crossed by the BR-116 highway, more exactly, by the stretch between Rio and São Paulo (known as Via Dutra), one of the most important of the country. The Industrial District of Queimados, on the side of the BR-116 highway, is one of the main industrial zones in the metro area of Rio de Janeiro. The municipality is also served by the Japeri railway line, which starts in the Central do Brasil station, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, and ends in the Japeri city center, having a station in Queimados, right in its downtown area.

Get in

From the Rio de Janeiro's downtown area, one can go to Queimados by using urban bus, van or train lines. Bus lines to Queimados depart from Terminal Américo Fontenelle, in Gamboa. The train that stops in Queimados station depart from Central do Brasil station. The vans to Queimados also depart from the Central do Brasil area.

The main road access to Queimados for those coming from the Rio de Janeiro downtown area is the BR-116 highway (Via Dutra).

By train

• 1 Queimados Station (Estação Queimados).  SuperVia runs commuter trains on the Japeri branch from Central do Brasil station in the center of Rio de Janeiro to the center of Japeri. (updated May 2023)

By bus

• Queimados has two bus companies that make the journeys of municipal lines: Gardel Turismo and Fazeni Transportes (both have intercity lines connecting Queimados to Japeri).
•  It also has five other companies responsible for intercity lines: Nilopolitana, Linave Transportes, Transportes Blanco, Transportadora Tinguá and UniRio (from the same group as Transportes Blanco). 
• Queimados has connections with the municipalities of Japeri, Nova Iguaçu, Belford Roxo, Mesquita, Nilópolis, São João de Meriti and Duque de Caxias, in addition to the connection with the city of Rio de Janeiro with lines to Centro and Penha passing through some neighborhoods in the North Zone.

See

• Rio Guandu (Guandu River) - A major river in Baixada Fluminense.
• Distrito Industrial de Queimados (Industrial District of Queimados) - An industrial district on the side of the Rio-São Paulo highway.
• 1 Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição), R. Ver. Marinho Hemeterio Oliveira, 75. A church from the 19th century. (updated May 2023)

Eat

• Varandão Restaurante Pizzaria - Avenida Irmãos Guinle, 849 - Centro, Queimados.

Sleep

• Logic Queimados - Rua Marinho Hemeterio Oliveira, 853 - Vila Nascente, Queimados.

Go next

• Japeri
• Paracambi
• Seropédica
• Nova Iguaçu
• Rio de Janeiro