Botafogo Beach is located in Botafogo Bay, the eponymous district in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At the time of founding of the city of Rio de Janeiro, vast land grants were donated outside the city limits, around the Guanabara Bay.
João de Souza Pereira Botafogo, owner and resident on site, named the cove, the beach and the neighborhood that would form in the following centuries.