, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Without finding a place to live, many people ended up in a favela. Description A favela is fundamentally different from a slum or tenement, primarily in terms of its origin and location. While slum quarters in other Latin American countries generally form when poorer residents from the countryside come to larger cities in search of work, and while this also occurs to some extent with favelas, the latter are unique in that they we… (More on Favela)