Curitiba-PR Botafogo Freshmen of Air Corinthians Flamengo bis Jabaquara So Paulo Lausanne Lenico Matsubara Mavilis Palms Radium Rosita Sofia Tuna Luso New Villa Botafogo Charles Dunlop counts that to the name ‘ ‘ Botafogo’ ‘ it always provoked the curiosity of the people, especially of the foreigners. They arrived to ask if Bread-of-Sugar would not be an extinct volcano, that ‘ ‘ fogo’ botava; ‘. In this volcanic line, the poet Joo Pear tree Da Silva, in the poem ‘ ‘ The Estolaida’ ‘ , it wrote following verses on the famous mount: ‘ ‘ E, or for lying some giant, Qu’ inda flames vomits exasperado, Or lightning for assduo game Calls it curve beach Boot; ‘ But it is clearly that the name does not have nothing to see with volcanos. The history of this name starts in 1519, when D. Joo III ordered to construct the carrack Is Joo Baptist.
As it had 200 parts of weighed artillery, it gained the nickname of ‘ ‘ Boot; ‘. In the end of century XVI, Joo Pear tree of Sousa ran away from Portugal, had to the disagreements that its family if atreveu to have with the royalty. Arriving in Rio De Janeiro, she actively participated of the expeditions against the Frenchmen and tamoios, reason for which gained the nickname of ‘ ‘ Botafogo’ ‘ , that it finished for incorporating the last name. As awarding, it got a great one would sesmaria abandoned for Old Francisco (accompanying of Estcio de S), in a region that the Frenchmen called ‘ ‘ Le Lac’ ‘. In century XVIII, the proper area already was known as cove of Botafogo, name that later was inherited by the quarter. E, is clearly, for the clubs established there, as the Club of Regattas Botafogo, the Botafogo Soccer Club and the product of the fusing of both, the Botafogo de Futebol and Regatas.