GABIA, or GAYEA, in Brazil, a group of mountains in the Tijuco range, in the province of Rio de Janeiro, near the coast. It is about 16 miles S.E. of Rio de Janeiro, in Lat. 23° N. The highest peak, named from its appearance "Topsail mountain," is designated by English mariners "Lord Hood's Nose." It is flat on the top, and composed mostly of granite, rising almost perpendicularly from the sea to the height of 2100 feet. At its base are the bar and roadstead of the Rio Tijuco.