Corcovado is the name of the mountaintop on which the Christ the Redeemer statue was built at 710 metres (2,328 feet) above sea level in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The name Corcovado comes from Corcova, which means hunchback (due to the shape of the mountain).
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