Prefeitura do Rio presents operational plan for Carnaval Street 2026

The Prefeitura do Rio, through the Riotur, released, on Thursday (15/01), the operational plan for the Carnaval Street 2026, which starts this weekend and extends until the end of February 22, which consolidates another major edition of the largest popular party in the country.

Throughout the carnival period, 460 parades of street blocks are planned, which should mobilize more than 6 million revelers, between residents and tourists. The Street Carnaval will have an extensive and decentralized agenda. The program brings together traditional blocks, megablocks and smaller processions, reflects the cultural diversity of the city and strengthens the democratic character of the party. The operational plan was presented at the Rio Operations Center (COR).

The complete programming can be checked in the Rio Blocks application 2026 and in the official website Making sure all the revelers know where and when the revelry is coming.

CET-Rio will have 320 traffic operators on the streets of the city

The Traffic Engineering Company of Rio de Janeiro (CET-Rio) will deploy special traffic operations to ensure road safety to the foliões that will participate in the street blocks accredited by Riotur. The planning provides for the prohibition and prohibition of parking on various routes with leaf spots. Of the total blocks, 11 are megablocks and will parade in the Black Circuit Gil, on Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos, in the Center. CET-Rio carries out specific planning for each block, with operations that take place in all regions of the city. The megablock scheme is already consolidated and has no impact on residents of the city. The circuit serves public safety and urban mobility planning. The operation aims to promote traffic flow, road safety and reduce impacts on city mobility. Traffic teams will be working directly at the folia points, in addition to monitoring the roads made by the Center for Operations and Resilience (COR). On average, 320 traffic operators will be engaged in the blocks, with support from 30 vehicles, 45 motorcycles and 24 trailers. For road signs, CET-Rio provides for the use of 2,500 cones and pumps in traffic blocks, as well as 900 ballasts and lanes with guidance on the transit scheme. 36 variable message panels will inform about the interdictions and guide alternative deviations and routes. CET-Rio advises the population to program the displacement in advance and prioritize the use of public transport. It is worth remembering that everyone must respect traffic signs and follow the guidelines of traffic agents.

COR will feature the largest videowall in Latin America with real-time images

All points of the city with programming of the Carnaval Street will have real-time monitoring of the Center of Operations and Resilience of the Prefeitura do Rio (COR-Rio). The displacements of the main official blocks and megablocks will be accompanied by about 500 operators of 50 organs, on duty, directly from the Situation Room of COR-Rio, through the images generated by approximately 4,000 cameras installed in the places where the parades are scheduled. In addition, three drones will reinforce the monitoring along the path of the blocks. The images captured by the equipment will be displayed to the teams on duty in the largest videowall in Latin America, with 104 square meters, 129 screens and 28 meters wide.

Representatives of municipal bodies such as Riotur, CET-Rio, Municipal Guard, Municipal Secretariat of Public Order (Seop), Municipal Department of Transport (SMTR), Municipal Health Secretariat (SMS) and Comlurb, in addition to the Military Police, Fire Department and concessionaires of the public service will turn around, with integrated action. In case of any emergency occurrence in the parades, the activation of the operational teams occurs immediately. The interdictions caused by blocks and megablocks will also be made available in the Waze app, partner of COR-Rio, preventing the user from being held in congestion caused by parades. Tourists and the general population can download the COR app.Rio to connect with the main information about the city: real-time traffic, weather forecast, road blocks, operational stages, heat levels, among others. In addition, more than 5,000 cameras from Prefeitura do Rio are available. The COR-Rio app is free of charge, available for Android and iOS in virtual app stores, and has English, Spanish, French and Chinese versions.

COR-Rio also has other communication channels to keep the population up to date. About 16,000 external media panels will display newsletters with time-related public utility information in the city, as well as special traffic and transport schemes for the Carnaval in the city. The service messages will be conveyed in public spaces such as buses, road terminals, airports, train stations, subway and VLT, bus shelters, clocks, totems and bicycle rental stations; and private locations such as shopping malls and commercial and residential buildings. Through the @operacoesrio profile on social networks (X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky), the Cor.rio website and COR-Rio news channel at WhatsApp, the Operations Center will also make a special coverage of Carnaval in the city, in real time, with teams on call.

Special Operation Urban Planning and Patrol will have 1,100 agents

The Municipal Secretariat of Public Order (SEOP) and the Municipal Guard of Rio (GM-Rio) set up special operation of urban planning and patrolling.

The operation will begin this weekend on the 17th, and will count on preventive patrolling and inspection of the main street blocks. Approximately 1,100 agents (between city guards and SEOP servers) will use 70 vehicles – between trailers, motorcycles and vehicles – in the actions. The teams will follow in the concentration, the path and also the dispersion of the blocks with actions of urban planning and supervision of irregular walking trade (walkers, sheds and kiosks), with special attention to the seizure of glass bottles that are prohibited and can cause accidents, and coercion to offenses.

The municipal guards will also act in the monitoring and monitoring of traffic, operating road blocks, making trailers, guiding the crossing of pedestrians and restraining irregular parking and obstruction of public areas, among other irregularities. The operation will aim to minimize possible impacts on traffic and speed up the opening of roads after the closure of events.

There will be supervision of taxis, application and transport cars, as well as monitoring and assistance in closing official blocks. The staff will also work in patrolling the BRT stations, in Ronda Maria da Penha on megablocks and in the distribution of bracelets in children's blocks by the agents of the School Round Group.

Medical stations will be distributed in areas with the highest concentration

The Municipal Health Department (SMS) has prepared a special pre-hospital care scheme in areas of greater public concentration during the programming of the carnaval street in the city, in the neighborhoods of Centro/Circuito Preta Gil, Aterro do Flamengo, Copacabana, Ipanema/Leblon, Jardim Botânico and Barra da Tijuca. There are seven medical stations that will support a total of 55 blocks, including the ten megablocks. The Center’s posts start running on the weekend of 24 and 25, for the parades of the first megablocks of the Black Circuit Gil, on March 1st Street, Alice’s Tea and Alexa Block, respectively.

The stations will serve the public in the blocks of greatest impact on the calendar of street carnaval in the city. The structure of the SMS will have 36 beds in all; in addition to 42 hydration armchairs. In all there will be 566 health professionals' shifts throughout the popular party. All stations will have advanced ambulances to transfer the most serious cases and need hospital support to emergency and emergency municipal units. Hospitals will also receive reinforcement in the shifts to meet the demand of the carnaval. The removals will be coordinated by the Municipal Regulatory Center.

In the Center there will be two posts, in Ana Amelia Square and Largo da Carioca, which will support a total of 30 blocks, among them the 10 mega blocks of the Black Circuit Gil. In addition to the Tea of Alice and Block of Lexa, which open the Street Carnaval, also the Block of Gold on January 31; and in February, what Does It Open? (day 1o), Favorite Block (7), Boitata Cord (8), Black Ball Cord (14), Lud Fervo (17), Anitta Block (21) and Monobloco (22). In Ipanema, the medical station will be installed in the Plaza Nossa Senhora da Paz, assisting the foliões of the 11 blocks that parade through the neighborhood and the Leblon. In Copacabana, the structure will be in Praça do Lido, supporting the 14 parades held in the neighborhoods of Copacabana and Leme. On Flamengo, the post will work on MAM.

In the Jardim Botânico, the service will be concentrated in the Plaza Santos Dumont, while in the Barra da Tijuca the post will be mounted in the Plaza do Ó. Health promotion teams of SMS will be in some regions of the city with large circulation of revelries performing health guidance actions, with distribution of information material on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (ST) and condoms. VanBora, SMS mobile unit, will circulate through the concentration points of the public with offer of guidance, condoms and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure (PEP) to the HIV virus.

If necessary, all municipal emergency and emergency units will also have PEP available 24 hours a day. And from Sunday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., the Combined Prevention Center, in the Complex of the Municipal Hospital Rocha Maia (Rua General Severiano, 91, Botafogo), will be reference to meet those who need PrEP or PEP. The Municipal Health Department recommends some care to the foliões so that they can enjoy the carnaval street with health and safety: maintain the medication of continuous use; drink plenty of water; moderate in the intake of alcoholic beverages; wear sunscreen FPS 50 or more; wear cap or hat; wear light clothing/fantasy; wear closed and comfortable footwear; attention to the use of cosmetic products/capillaries that can cause allergy or sunburns; attention to the origin when consuming drinks and foods; and carry identification document and contact phone. Those responsible for children need maximum attention, which, in addition to the care for hydration and sun protection, should wear a bracelet or identification badge with contact phone from those responsible.

Comlurb will have nearly 14,000 workers cleaning the streets of the city

Comlurb has prepared a cleaning megaoperation for before, during and after the passage of all blocks of the city. The cleaning work will be carried out on the main roads in which the blocks parade and all around, including the access and adjacent streets, with the services of mechanized sweeping, washing, emptying of paper and containers for collection and removal of waste. It is noteworthy that all the Company's routine services will be maintained normally in the city throughout the period of Pre-Carnaval and Carnaval. Comlurb's cleaning service will extend until the last day of folia, marked by the passage of the Monobloco.

During the entire period, the staff will add up, from the Pre-Carnaval, 13,714 workers, 9,736 garis. Comlurb will make the largest contaminanization for attendance at events in the city, with 13,000 containers, 10 thousand of 240 liters and 3,000 of high capacity, 1,200 liters, so that the foliões can make the correct disposal of their waste. During the Carnaval 2026, Comlurb will carry out even the largest hydraulic cleaning and mechanized cleaning operation in the history of the city. During the period, the company will have 1,507 vehicles, including compactor trucks, satellite trucks, dump trucks, electric carts, large sweepers, mini-saws, tractors and 180 blowers. All vehicles and equipment will work in three shifts.

After the passage of the blocks, the teams will do hydraulic cleaning with reuse water with 40,000 liters of soap and 5,000 liters of eucalyptus essence. There will be 30 dump trucks, 26 vans with hydraulic cleaning implement and five trucks with hydraulic cleaning implement. The application of eucalyptus essence with 125 costal sprayers, around the chemical toilets, will also be done. Comlurb will also clean the four medical stations installed in the parade area of the blocks, two in the Black Circuit Gil, in the Center, one in Lido Square and one in Nossa Senhora da Paz Square, in Ipanema.

Carnaval + Women's Insurance: city teams will be available to prevent and combat violence against women

The Municipal Secretariat of Policies for Women and Care of Rio (SPM-Rio) has prepared a special operation for the period of the Carnaval, focusing on prevention and coping with violence against women in the places of greater concentration of the city's public. The strategy provides specialized teams working in the main areas of folia, providing immediate reception, guidance and referral to the municipal protection network in cases of harassment or violence. During the official parades, the Secretariat will install fixed service stations at the Marquis de Sapucaí, the Intendente Magalhães and Fan Fest do Carnaval, in Copacabana.

These spaces will have qualified professionals, such as social workers, psychologists and lawyers, prepared to perform qualified listening, provide emergency support and guide women about their rights and services available in the municipality. In addition to the fixed posts, mobilizing teams will be present in the street blocks and the Parks Carnaval. The work includes circulation in areas of great flow of foliões, informative approach and material distribution of the campaign “Carnaval + Women’s Insurance”, reinforcing messages to prevent harassment and encourage complaint.

The campaign will also be expanded with adhesive of the bathrooms of the official spaces of the Carnaval, with clear messages to combat violence and QR Codes that direct to the platform www.woman.rio, where it is possible to access information about reception, legal orientation, psychological support and the equipment of the municipal network of protection for women. With this operation, the Secretariat seeks to ensure that public policy is present where the city is, including in the moments of celebration. The action during the Carnaval integrates a permanent set of actions of the municipality aimed at the prevention, care and protection of women, reinforcing that no situation of violence should be naturalized and that access to information and support can save lives.