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City that's home to Copacabana Beach, familiarly (3)

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I believe the answer is:

rio

(Other definitions for rio that I've seen before include "Port, -- de Janeiro" , "A Mexican river - like Grande" , "- Ferdinand, footballer" , "old capital" , "place of carnival" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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