Marechal Hermes

Marechal Hermes is a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a working class suburb situated in the North region of Rio surrounded by Bento Ribeiro, Campo dos Afonsos, Deodoro and Guadalupe. It takes its name from an ex-president of Brazil: Marechal Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, being marshal the highest possible Army rank in Brazil.

Marechal, as it is known locally^{[citation needed]}, gained from being a "planned" suburb. It contains wide avenues, a cinema, theatre, large hospital and a big church. Many of its original inhabitants were military men in view of the Army and Airforce headquarters nearby in Deodoro and Campo dos Afonsos respectively.