From the air you can see Rio's Olympic Park, in the Barra zone to the south of the city, taking shape.
The most significant legacy project from the bid is the Olympic Training Center (OTC) program and facilities with its headquarters located in Barra zone.
The Olympic and Paralympic Village, the International Broadcast Centre IBCC) and the Main Press Centre (MPC) will be located at the Barra zone, which is the core of the project and includes the largest number of competition venues.
It was midday this week, not far from a main road in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's most developed and supposedly "pacified" slum that straddles a mountain and sits right between the main Barra and Copacabana Olympic zones.
With improving prospects, has come an array of trendy bars, restaurants and cafes, from the Finnieston ground-zero, to the Glad Cafe in the southside area of Shawlands, and the radical zone of redevelopment down by the Barras in the east.
While Olympic venues are located in several neighbourhoods, most events will occur in Barra da Tijuca, a coastal neighbourhood in the city's west zone.
People of European ancestry live predominantly in the affluent neighbourhoods of Flamengo, Copacabana, Ipanema-Leblon, Jardim Botânico, and Gávea in the South Zone; in Tijuca in the North Zone; and stretching from Barra da Tijuca past Recreio dos Bandeirantes in the West Zone.
Stornoway and Benbecula airports have reopened, however Barra airport in the Outer Hebrides is closed as it is in the no-fly zone from 7pm today until 1am tomorrow.
It runs alongside the coastal expressway between two of the main Olympic centres: the south zone, which will stage the rowing and triathlon, and the main Olympic Park in Barra de Tijuca.
That allowed the mayor, Eduardo Paes, who cut his political teeth in Barra, to direct tens of billions of reais in public funds for infrastructure investment to the western zone.
Two municipalities (Bonito and Barra de Guabiraba) were not included in this study as they are located in geographical transition zones in the more humid Zona da Mata, which has a greater availability of water, and because they do not qualify for a cistern from the P1MC.
