Military instruction is given at the Eschola Militar of Rio de Janeiro.
The Argentine government has located its principal naval station here, at the Puerto Militar, between the city and the entrance to the bay.
Its quarters were in the old convent of Santo Domingo until 1900, when the American military government prepared better quarters for it in the former Pirotecnica Militar, near El Principe.
A chap-book called Vida politica y militar de Don Tomas Zumalacarregui, which gives the, facts of his life with fair accuracy, is still very popular in Spain.