Palácio do Jaburu
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| Palácio do Jaburu | |
 Palácio do Jaburu |
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| Town | Brasília |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Architect | Oscar Niemeyer |
| Construction start date | 1973 |
The Palácio do Jaburu (English: "Palace of the Jabiru") is the official residence of the Vice-President of Brazil. The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1977. It is located near Palácio da Alvorada in Brasília.The name comes from a common bird of the region.
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[edit] The Palace
To the side of the lagoon that gave the name to it and to the edges of the Paranoá Lake, the Palace of the Jaburu was projected for the architect Oscar Niemeyer to be the official residence of the Vice-president of the Republic, inside of the urbanistic conception proposal for Lúcio Coasta for Brasilia.
The main characteristic of the Palace and it differentiates what it, basically, of others, as Palácio da Alvorada, is the fact of being a construction exclusively destined the housing. Its 4,283 square meters privilege more the external area, with generous varandas, of what the common areas, as the halls, whose dimensions if approach to the ones of other residences and not of the traditional palaces.
Located throughout the Presidential Way, it enters the Palaces of Planalto and Alvorada, the Palácio do Jaburu is in the topographical level of the Paranoá Lake, occupying land of 190 a thousand square meters. In its garden, projected for the land-scape painter Robert Burle Marx, carefully some species of typical trees of the original open pasture had been kept, that today join to the fruteiras and the ornamental plants brought of other regions of the Country.
[edit] Natural aviary
The tranquillity of the place helps to transform it into a natural aviary of rheas, that had finished for joining it rheas that they circulate, with absolute freedom, for the immense green area.
The Jaburu was projected in 1973, and inaugurated in 1977 - seventeen years after the inauguration of Brasilia - Adalberto Pereira dos Santos, Vice-president of Ernesto Geisel was the first resident, followed of Aureliano Chaves (Vice-president of João Figueiredo) and Itamar Franco (Vice-president of Fernando Collor). Marco Maciel (Vice-president of Fernando Henrique Cardoso) occupied the Palace from 1995 to 2002.
