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A state that was used for more than 3 centuries and including in the beginning of the colonial period like commercial warehouse. Its fast development arrived later with the coffee plantations, in the middle of century XIX, that extended by all the state, this situation caused that to new highways and railway lines, modernization of the ports and all an infrastructure of support were constructed that, in few decades, took to the region to assume a predominant role in the economy of the country.
Is land of mixture of races, since the immigrants who arrived were of more than 50 countries, that were mixed among them, with the natives and the African slaves. The immigrants went in search of work, and the coffee was the demanded product more.
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Sao Paulo has little more than 34 million inhabitants, which corresponds almost to 22% of the population of Brazil. With near 35% of the national GIP, it has one of the PIBs majors of Latin America and is an economic center of great importance, is located the greater park industrial of the country and also it soothes of the financial capital. In Sao Paulo, to 70 km of the capital, the greater port of Latin America is the Port of Saints, and therefore a great center of reception and distribution of merchandize at world-wide level.
The State has 625 municipalities, 39 of which they form the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo, the third conglomerated major urban of the planet, with 16 million inhabitants. The RMSP lodges to many of the majors national companies and international and of the foreign banks with it soothes in the country.
Sao Paulo, founded on 1554 by parents Jesuits, then the small town of Sao Paulo continued being calm until half-full of century XIX, moment at which began to be developed with the culture of the coffee. Of there in future, the opportunities happened to be everywhere and the State Capital of Sao Paulo already never has stopped growing. It has received immigrants worldwide to palliate the shortage of existing manpower then and today it is possible to be considered that it is the third greater Italian city of the world, the greater Japanese city outside Japan, the third greater Lebanese city outside Lebanon, the greater Portuguese city outside Portugal and the greater Spanish city outside Spain.
Sao Paulo, is the main economic pole and has the greater urban concentration of the country. With a mounted economic infrastructure throughout the last average century and, the city has an integrated industry, a rear area net connected with the main world-wide centers and ample information services, leisure and culture. Its tendency has come being the one to consolidate its vocation like great and modern metropolis oriented to the benefit of services supported in the technologies more outposts. |
Recommended visits
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MASP (Museum of Art of Sao Paulo), has one of the richest bottoms of art of the country and its base was mounted thanks to the persistence of Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi, who was during many years director of the Museum. The most important bottom of European art of Latin America is considered and owns works of important teachers like Degas, Renoir, Modigliani and Bonnard, among others.
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Pinacoteca of the State, the museum very has a defined profile of the Brazilian art of century XIX until the contemporaneidad, and the exhibitions that realize come allowing to review this art through subjects filled with brasileñismo. Its bottom counts on near 4,000 works and is significant especially for Sao Paulo.
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MAM - MAC (Museums of art modern and contemporary art), with more than 5,000 works in their bottom, between oils, drawings, engravings, sculptures, paintings, ceramic and carpets, the MAC is the greater museum of specialized Latin America in the western production of century XX. Besides drawing up the main directives of the plastic language of this century, it organizes systematic exhibitions and it offers optative disciplines to the race courses, extension and specialization, oriented activities of factories and visits.
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Paulista museum, first monument constructed especially to preserve the memory of the Independence of Brazil. It was created like Museum of Natural Sciences, following the model of the European museums of the time, where the study and the exhibitions of zoology and botany were the main subjects. At the moment it is an historical museum dedicated to the study of the material culture. Its bottom, with near 100,000 pieces, is set up by works of art, furniture, suits and utensils that belonged to personalities of Brazilian history, like the bandeirantes and the emperors. The facilities lodge a library with 100,000 volumes and a Center of Historical Documentation, with 40,000 manuscripts.
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Probably Sao Paulo is one of the places of the world where we can taste richest and varied local or Brazilian gastronomy not only, but international, their variety and quality of their restaurants are recognized world-wide.
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Guaruja, is one of the most famous paulistas spas, to 87 km of the capital is a city oriented to the tourism, with tens of beaches extended throughout built-up avenues. In the central area are the blue waters of beaches of Pitangueiras and the Asturias. However the Beach doTombo is not appropriate for the bath, but for medical instructors of surf, and contrasts with the tranquility of Guaiúba, Prainha Branca and Iporanga, where the ebullient vegetation completes with cascades and fresh water swimming pools. In Guarujá also there are historical marks, as Strength gives Great Bar, constructed in century XVI, the Forte Velho, to 8 km of the center, and the Armação gives Baleias, first industry installed in the state for the whale oil extraction.
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Located in the North coast is Bertioga, where an old one hard still keeps the memory from Hans Staden, German adventurer kidnapped by tupinambás in the middle of century XVI.
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In this same coast is São Sebastião, separated of Bertioga by tens of beaches with an intensely blue sea. Founded at the end of century XVI, the region lodged sugar cane plantations and properties of coffee. Today, its economy is based to a large extent on the tourism, the industries of transformation of the fish and, like second greater port of the state, also on the harbor activities. Historical city, the center of São Sebastião counts on many old constructions, openings of the colonial period, between which several have the category of historical patrimony.
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More outstanding beaches of all the coast: Enseada, Cicadas, Guaecá, Great Touch-Touch, Small Touch-Touch, Maresias, Boissucanga, Camburi, Bar do Sahy and Juquehy, etc.
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Against São Sebastião is Ilhabela, the greater Brazilian marine island, with almost 350,000 m2 of extension. Ilhabela is the ideal paradise for the practice of nautical sports. Besides being able to admire its cascades that cut to the vegetation formed by a great variety of trees and plants of the State Park of Ilhabela. They are 150 km of coasts and beaches, some still in wild state, to which it is only possible to be acceded in boat.
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Caraguatatuba and Ubatuba, we were with the blue water beach beauty innumerable that contrasts with the profile of mountains covered by the green one with the Atlantic Forest, ideal place for the nature tourism.
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Beach of Picinguaba, one old village of fishermen with a great extension of virgin green area, paradise for the eco-tourism.
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In the South coast of Sao Paulo is the Ecological Station Juréia-Itatins, to 200 km of the capital, that lodges one of the main ecosystems that existed in the coast of the state before their intense urbanization and maintain a work systematic of preservation, investigation and environmental education. In 80.000 you have of vegetal cover, to a large extent primitive and virgin, is vegetation of restinga, manguezais, fields of altitude, ciliary vegetation, marshes and seaweed of coastal zone, besides the Atlantic Forest proper. This variety of ecosystems responds of the great diversity of the flora and the fauna of the ecological station, one of the last refuges of several species of mammals like muriqui, the ounce guinea fowl and anta. The greater river of the station is a doPrelado one, also denominated Comprido, that extends near 50 km through a plain of restinga and receives diverse affluents.
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The Lagamar is a region that extends by an in line straight strip of 200 km, between the municipalities of Iguape and Cananéia, in the South coast of Sao Paulo. Considered one of the three main sets of ecosystems of the world in terms of primary productivity and one of the last regions noncontaminated of the South Atlantic, the Lagamar is formed by hundreds of the one and water obstacles that descend from the Serra do Sea and by rivers from tide, lagoons, salt marshes and an inner sea protected by islands like the one of Cardoso, the Comprida of Peças. Besides its environmental importance, the Lagamar is a frame in the history of Sao Paulo: there, the Portuguese Martim Afonso de Souza arrived in 1531, initiating the process of colonization of the state.
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In the Lagamar is the Estadual Park gives to Ilha do Cardoso, formed by bays, I mount, openings of rivers and several islands protect that it and form, paralelamente to the continent, a set of channels bathed by a fresh and salty water mixture. Located in the municipality of Cananéia, 272 km of the capital, the doCardoso Ilha is recognized by the Union the International for the Protection of the Nature like the third unit of conservation in importance in the world in relation to the primary productivity. Throughout their channels, the salt marshes predominate, that are true breeding grounds for many marine species
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