{
  "id": 4679115,
  "title": "What Is a Favela, Really? Inside Brazil’s Hillside Communities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/what-is-a-favela-really-inside-brazils-hillside-communities",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T15:33:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Rio Times",
    "slug": "the-rio-times",
    "url": "https://www.riotimesonline.com/what-is-favela-brazil-hillside-communities/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Living in Brazil Key Facts —Population. Brazil’s 2022 census (IBGE) counted 16.4 million people — 8.1% of the national population — living in 12,348 favelas and urban communities across 656 municipalities. —Rio concentration. The city of Rio de Janeiro alone hosts roughly 1.4 million favela residents, according to the Rio city government’s Instituto Pereira Passos. […] The post What Is a Favela,…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}