Leishmaniasis is part of a group of neglected tropical diseases that are associated with poverty and develop in places with precarious housing, lack of access to basic sanitation and clean water, abundance of insects and degraded environments. The presence of protozoa and vectors is necessary for the occurrence of the disease, which in this case are sandflies. A high incidence of infected domestic animals, such as dogs and several species of wild animals, occurs which involves very complex reservoir-parasite interaction. Thus, even if action is taken to control the disease in urban areas, the occurrence of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) may continue to take place in rural-urban contact areas. This situation is common most of the Baixada Fluminense region, a group of municipalities that form the metropolitan periphery of Rio de Janeiro, of which the municipality of Seropédica studied here is a part. We analyze data presented by the Secretary of Tourism of the State of Rio de Janeiro that demonstrate that 36.27% of the metro region is covered by green areas. About a third of this area is in conservation units located in the Baixada Fluminense and could have considerable potential for tourism to the point of constituting a new tourist region, the Green Baixada. This initiative has the aim to providing greater visibility and opportunity for regional tourism, but may put tourists in contact with long-standing endemic areas of Leishmaniasis.Thus, this study will identify the areas of risk to contracting ATL in the municipality of Seropédica and compare them with proposed tourism areas in the Green Baixada Verde. We observed in the field that the municipality has the typical characteristics described in the literature for the occurrence of the disease, particularly in Campo Lindo borough, which, despite being more urbanized, had more cases, and Santa Sofia borough, which is more rural and where many vectors captured in the field. These boroughs are not included in the Green Baixada Project, but Mário Xavier National Forest, which is a recommended tourist stop was found to be very favorable for catching the disease for that it would require preventive action in order to combat the disease and train primary health care professionals as well as continuous educational measures.