Favela (Portuguese: [fɐˈvɛlɐ]) is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil. The term, which means slum or ghetto, was...

Marlene Favela (born Silvia Marlene Favela Meraz on August 5, 1977) is a Mexican actress and model. In Mexican television, as of 2013 she was best known...

José Alberto Inzunza Favela (born December 10, 1990), most commonly known as Joss Favela, is a Mexican musician, singer, and songwriter. Considered "el...

Look up favela in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A favela is a Brazilian slum neighborhood. Favela may also refer to: Cnidoscolus quercifolius, a tree...

Favela Painting is the name of a series of community artwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil painted by Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (known as...

Rocinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁɔˈsĩɲɐ], little farm) is a favela in Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro's South Zone between the districts of São Conrado...

Brazilian drug trafficker. He was a major criminal figure in the Cidade de Deus favela of Rio de Janeiro during the 1970s and 1980s. He rose to posthumous fame...

(Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfɐ̃k(i) kɐɾiˈɔkɐ, - kaɾ-]), also known as favela funk, in other parts of the world as baile funk and Brazilian funk, or even...

Cnidoscolus quercifolius (syn. C. phyllacanthus; common names in Portuguese: favela, faveleira, faveleiro, and mandioca-brava) is a species of flowering plant...

armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro or simply Civil conflict for control of the favelas is an ongoing conflict between Brazilian...