[1] The park is located along Guanabara Bay, in the Flamengo neighborhood of the city, between Downtown Rio and Copacabana.

Flamengo Park is the location of the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, the Carmen Miranda Museum, and the Monument to the Dead of World War II with Modernist memorial sculptures.

It provides a main segment for Rio's Cycling Race, which is allotted the largest number of points among the Latin American events on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) world ranking.

In the 2007 Pan American Games, Marina da Glória was the main venue for the Rio 2007 Sailing competitions.

Also during the Games, the Marathon (men's and women's) arrival points were set up at the Flamengo Park, which also staged the Race Walking and Cycling Road competitions.