Ipanema is an Old Tupi term meaning "bad water", i.e. a body of water that is unsuitable to a certain task (from y "water" + panema "barren, contaminated, unhealthy, unlucky"). It can refer to:

Places

• Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil
• Ipanema, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Ipanema, Rio Grande do Sul, a neighborhood in Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Ipanema River in Alagoas and Pernambuco, Brazil
• Conceição de Ipanema, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Fazenda Ipanema, São Paulo, Brazil, a small settlement near Iperó and Boituva
  • Royal Ironworks of St John, Ipanema, called in Portuguese Fundição Ipanema, historical ironworks at Fazenda Ipanema
• Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil
• Ipanema Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Persons

• José Antônio Moreira, count of Ipanema
• José Antônio Moreira Filho, 2nd Baron of Ipanema
• "The Girl from Ipanema", Brazilian celebrity Heloísa Pinheiro who inspired the eponymous song (see below)

Popular culture

• Ipanema : a British alternative/punk-rock band active between 2002 and 2008, with lead vocalist Darren Brown
• Banda de Ipanema : a famous carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro
• Beyond Ipanema : Brazilian Waves in Global Music, a 2009 documentary movie
• Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland : a 1986 single by The B-52's
• "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema) : a bossa nova song written in 1962
• Ipanema (album)
• Magical Chinese Girl Ipanema! : a Japanese tokusatsu program broadcast in 1989.

Other

• aircraft: Embraer EMB 202 Ipanema, an agricultural aircraft from Brazil
• bat: Ipanema Bat, the New World leaf-nosed bat species Pygoderma bilabiatum
• company: Ipanema Technologies, a French IT company
• brand: Ipanema, a Brazilian sandals brand owned by Grendene
• football club: Ipanema Atlético Clube, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
• car: Chevrolet Ipanema, the estate version of the 1989 Brazilian Chevrolet Kadett
• Ipanema (crustacean), a genus of crustaceans in the family Ipanemidae