Tijuca Portuguese pronunciation: [tʃiˈʒukɐ] (meaning marsh or swamp in the tupi language, from ty ("water") and îuká ("to kill")) is a neighbourhood of the Northern Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It comprises the region of Saens Peña and Afonso Pena squares. According to the 2000 Census, the district has close to 150,000 inhabitants. It borders with Praça da Bandeira, Maracanã, Vila Isabel, Andaraí, Grajaú and Alto da Boa Vista neighbourhoods.

It is one of the most traditional districts of Rio de Janeiro and has the third largest urban forest in the world, the Tijuca Forest, which is result of reforestation from coffee fields that led to lack of water at that time. Mainly a middle class district, it has been historically inhabited by Portuguese immigrant families and the families of military officers.

Tijuca hosts GRES Acadêmicos do Salgueiro, GRES Império da Tijuca and GRES Unidos da Tijuca, three of the main Rio de Janeiro Samba Schools, that together have won 9 titles.

Tijuca is also home to many favelas such as Salgueiro, Borel, Formiga, Turano and Casa Branca.

Marcio-Andre (born March 2, 1978, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer, translator, performer, sound poet and theorist.

Márcio-André de Sousa (sometimes called M-A) is graduated in Literature and has a master's degree in Poetics by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, he received a scholarship-prize by the Brazilian National Library Foundation and, in 2009, was poet-in-residence in Monsanto, Portugal. He taught an advanced training course in creative writing and sound poetry at University of Coimbra and literary theory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and several workshops sound poetry in secondary schools in Portugal.

In 2007, he won the pages of newspapers by his suicide performance in the ghost town of Chernobyl. In his lecture-of-one-man (that he called "Conference Poetic-Radioactive of Pripyat"), Marcio-Andre remained six hours reading his poems between the ruins of the ghost-town Pripyat (Chernobyl), at so-called Zone of Exclusion, under the deliberate risk of contamination by cesium 137 and strontium 90. After the event, he received the nickname "poeta radioativo" (radioactive poet). This performance resulted in the book Ensaios Radioativos, where he describes the experience of contamination.