title: Ipanema (disambiguation)
text: # Ipanema (disambiguation)
  
  Ipanema is an Old Tupi term meaning "bad water", i.e. a body of water that is unsuitable to a certain task (from y "water" + panema "barren, contaminated, unhealthy, unlucky"). It can refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil
  * Ipanema, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  * Ipanema, Rio Grande do Sul, a neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil
  * Ipanema River in Alagoas and Pernambuco, Brazil
  * Conceição de Ipanema, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  * Fazenda Ipanema, São Paulo, Brazil, a small settlement near Iperó and Boituva
     * Royal Ironworks of St John, Ipanema, called in Portuguese Fundição Ipanema, historical ironworks at Fazenda Ipanema
  * Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil
  * Ipanema Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  
  ## Persons
  
  * José Antônio Moreira, count of Ipanema
  * José Antônio Moreira Filho, 2nd Baron of Ipanema
  * "The Girl from Ipanema", Brazilian celebrity Heloísa Pinheiro who inspired the eponymous song (see below)
  
  ## Popular culture
  
  * Ipanema : a British alternative/punk-rock band active between 2002 and 2008, with lead vocalist Darren Brown
  * Banda de Ipanema : a famous carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro
  * Beyond Ipanema : Brazilian Waves in Global Music, a 2009 documentary movie
  * Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland : a 1986 single by The B-52's
  * "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema) : a bossa nova song written in 1962
  * Ipanema (album)
  * Magical Chinese Girl Ipanema! : a Japanese tokusatsu program broadcast in 1989.
  
  ## Other
  
  * aircraft: Embraer EMB 202 Ipanema, an agricultural aircraft from Brazil
  * bat: Ipanema Bat, the New World leaf-nosed bat species Pygoderma bilabiatum
  * company: Ipanema Technologies, a French IT company
  * brand: Ipanema, a Brazilian sandals brand owned by Grendene
  * football club: Ipanema Atlético Clube, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
  * car: Chevrolet Ipanema, the estate version of the 1989 Brazilian Chevrolet Kadett
  * Ipanema (crustacean), a genus of crustaceans in the family Ipanemidae
  