Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument Mountain, then an island, on 1 March 1565. The site was chosen to guard the entrance to Guanabara Bay, and the mountain was important as a signalling point. A landfill connected the island to the mainland in 1697, and various buildings were erected to defend the territory, but the Urca urban neighborhood was only built 300 years after the city was founded. The Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument was created by the city of Rio de Janeiro by municipal decree 26578 of 1 June 2006. The objectives are to guarantee green spaces for leisure in a natural area,
Sugarloaf Mountain (Massachusetts) that sugar was once molded into for shipment. The names "Sugarloaf Mountain" and "Mount Sugarloaf" are both used to describe this mountain. USGS sources and published hiking maps refer to (North and South) "Sugarloaf Mountain." However, the Massachusetts state reservation encompassing them is called the Mount Sugarloaf State Reservation. The name "Mount Sugarloaf" is sometimes used to describe only the south summit, and the north summit is sometimes described as the Pocumtuck Ridge. Both names are used locally. The original Native American name for the mountain is Wequamps (or Wequomps). The root "wehqu-" in this name or "weckw-" in "Weckwannuck"