Rio de Janeiro/RIOgaleão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport , popularly known by its original name
Galeão International Airport, is the main
airport serving
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. It is the country's second-busiest international airport. It is named after
Praia do Galeão (
Galleon Beach), located in front of the original passenger terminal (the present passenger terminal of the Brazilian Air Force) and where in 1663 the galleon
Padre Eterno was built; and since January 5, 1999 also after the Brazilian musician
Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim. Galeão Airport is explicitly mentioned in his composition
Samba do avião. It is the largest airport site in terms of area in Brazil.