Forty buildings, 2,251 apartments — Leblon's largest residential complex.
About the building
Selva de Pedra in brief.
Selva de Pedra is a 40-building, 2,251-apartment residential complex that occupies a substantial fraction of Leblon's inland blocks — one of the largest residential condominiums anywhere in Rio's South Zone, and the defining counterweight to Leblon's beachfront avenue stock. The complex is laid out around four dead-end internal streets that buffer it from through-traffic, with Praça Milton Campos at the geometric center as a shared green space.
Originally conceived as middle-class housing, Selva de Pedra has appreciated substantially over the decades and now trades as part of Leblon's broader high-end inventory. Inventory and HOA figures vary widely block-by-block — no single price band describes the complex — which is precisely why it functions as a working directory of the neighborhood's mid- and upper-mid market.
AddressResidential complex between Av. Afrânio de Melo Franco, Av. Bartolomeu Mitre and Rua Gen. Urquiza, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro — 22430-060 (postcodes vary by block)
Distance to
What's around it.
Walk and drive times to the things that decide where you live in Rio — beach,
metro, airports, neighborhood anchors.
Praia do Leblon5–10 min walk (block-dependent)
Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas6 min walk
Metrô General Osório (L1, Ipanema)12 min by car
Santos Dumont Airport20 min by car
Galeão (GIG)35 min by car
Av. Ataulfo de Paiva (restaurant strip)5 min walk
On the map
Selva de Pedra located.
Residential complex between Av. Afrânio de Melo Franco, Av. Bartolomeu Mitre and Rua Gen. Urquiza, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro — 22430-060 (postcodes vary by block)
On 11 May 1969 the Praia do Pinto favela — which had occupied the inland Leblon flat between Av. Bartolomeu Mitre and the General Urquiza axis — caught fire and burned for five days. The cause remains disputed in carioca press to this day. The cleared terreno was subsequently rezoned for a master-planned residential urbanização, the project that became Selva de Pedra.
Vista da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas e praias de Ipanema e Leblon, ao fundo o Morro Dois Irmãos · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Construction proceeded through the 1970s. The name was lifted directly from the Globo telenovela 'Selva de Pedra,' which aired during the build-out and gave the project both its branding and a recognizable cultural anchor at delivery.
Vista aérea do Forte de Copacabana e das praias de Ipanema e Leblon · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)Vista da Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, praias de Ipanema e Leblon, a partir do Mirante Dona Marta · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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