Editing Botafogo (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Nicola Antonio Facchinetti - Enseada do Botafogo.JPG|thumb|right|"Botafogo Bay" (1869), by Nicolao Antonio Facchinetti. Collection of the [[São Paulo Museum of Art]].]]
Botafogo was named after João Pereira de Sousa Botafogo (1540–1627), who was responsible for the [[galleon]] [[Botafogo (galleon)|''Botafogo'']]'s artillery. Because of that, he received the nickname "Botafogo" and included it in his [[family name]]. When he went to live in Brazil, the [[List of Portuguese monarchs|Portuguese Crown]] granted him the land known today as Botafogo. The name literally means "set it on fire" in Portuguese (a reference to the ''Botafogo'' galleon's artillery power).<ref>{{Cite web |title=João de Souza Pereira "Botafogo" |url=http://martin.romano.org/ps05/ps05_394.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410162712/https://martin.romano.org/ps05/ps05_394.htm |archive-date=2022-04-10 |website=martin.romano.org |language=pt-BR}}</ref> In the mid-19th century, [[English language]] speakers also called it Boto Fogo.<ref name=Roberts>{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Edmund|title=Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat|year=1837|publisher=Harper & Brothers|location=New York|page=28|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7317/view/1/28/}}</ref>