Tracks can also be a fresh approach to visiting traditional landmarks of Rio de Janeiro, like Corcovado Mountain.

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The First Family will tour the Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado mountain at 21:00 local time.

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Corcovado has roughly 13 types of vegetation, including a cloud forest, a mangrove and a freshwater herbaceous swamp.

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It follows the rails of the Corcovado Tramway for the last half hour of ascent where attentiveness is essential to avoid accidents with the trams.

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Make your way to Cosmo Velho, where the slightly unnerving cog train to the 710m-high peak known as Corcovado ascends through protected Tijuca National Forest to the Cristo Redentor, one of the most impressive monuments and urban views on earth.

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Until a few years ago, travellers walking up the trail would bypass the ticket booths to reach the belvedere on the summit of the Corcovado and the statue of the Christ, but stricter controls are now in place and no one gets there for free anymore.

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At Corcovado you can find tapirs, jaguars, pumas, anteaters, two-toed and three-toed sloths, golden orb spiders, moon crabs, a diversification of monkeys (including all four types of Costa Rican monkeys, found only in Corcovado), crocodiles, poison dart frogs, pelicans, 220 species of butterflies, scarlet macaws and even the rare and venomous fer-de-lance snake.

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