Camboinhas

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Camboinhas is one of the 48 neighborhoods into which the city of Niterói, in Brazil, is divided.

The name originated in a naval accident in the 1950s. In that decade, a ship called Camboinhas went down in the ocean off the present neighborhood. A second ship was sent to rescue the cargo of the sunk ship, but went down itself during its attempts to raise the debris. Today, the remains of the hull of the Camboinhas can be seen during low tide.

The neighborhood has shores on both the Itaipu Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean and was inhabited primarily by fishermen until 1978, when a company named Veplan started lotting the land for the real estate market. Between the years of 1980 and 1991, the place experienced a population growth rate of 14.84% per year, leading the city's statistics in that category. As a result, in 1991 it had a population of 926, which equals 0.21% of the total population of the municipality.

On the Atlantic shore, the place is marked by typical vegetation of the region, with sand dunes and restinga vegetation.

In terms of occupation, the area is dominated by middle and upper class family residences. 95.51% of the houses have plumbing.