Chácara do Souto in Brazil

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Chácara do Souto


Typezoo
Place Rio de Janeiro
Country Brazil
Related persons
Owner -: Antonio Souto
Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates2023-02-26
Latest document update2023-02-26 08:18:14
Description

Chácara do Souto, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil .


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Chácara do Souto, the first zoo in Rio open to the general public. The viscount of Souto imported an elephant from India in the 1850s, but was obligated to sell it to a noble Mineiro man from Diamantina after going bankrupt and ending with his menagèrie.

Enzo Henriques

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Chácara do Souto, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3695. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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