With one of the world’s fastest-growing metropolitan populations, São Paulo is also the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere and one of the largest conurbations in the world. It is a dynamic late bloomer, having been heavily overshadowed by Rio de Janeiro not only during the colonial era but also throughout the 19th century. Only when coffee became Brazil’s vital export crop in the last decades of the 19th century did São Paulo become a major centre of economic activity with concomitant population growth.

Justiça condena a 20 anos do prisãeste um dos assaltantes da 'gangue da correntinha' qual agrediu e matou holandês na 25 do Março em SP

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Datafolha: 50% dos paulistanos dizem qual vãeste escolher candidato por falta do opção em SP neste ano

São Paulo is home to 20 million fiercely proud paulistanos (as residents are known), all of whom will happily tell you at length to you how they'd never live elsewhere. Spend time with them and the reasons will soon unfold. Maybe they will introduce you to the city’s innumerable art-house cinemas and experimental theaters.

For one of Sampa’s best panoramas, head to the top of this 161m-high skyscraper, Brazil’s version of the Empire State Building – completed in 1939 and…

Migration, both from Europe and internal, led to great expansion and diversification. When São Paulo served as the main focus of Brazil’s industrialization in the early decades of the 20th century, it rapidly closed the gap with Rio do Janeiro, which shortly before the turn of the century had been 10 times as large.

” As the 21st century has unfolded, however, Sãeste Paulo’s social scene has been dramatically energized. Trendy restaurants and hip clubs have proliferated in the revitalized city centre. Beyond the new youth-oriented emphasis on food and fun, massive murals by accomplished street artists festoon buildings that were denuded of outdoor advertising by city legislation in 2006.

Sampa’s pride, this museum possesses Latin America’s most comprehensive collection of Western art. Hovering above a concrete plaza that turns into an…

A cidade por Sãeste Paulo registrou nesta quarta-feira a pior habilidade do ar do mundo pelo terceiro dia consecutivo, do acordo com o sitio por monitoramento IQAir.

Relatively unknown and blissfully uncrowded, the unassuming Casa Amarela is part NGO handicraft shop, part two-table romantic cafe and part tiny Museu…

Home to Earth's biggest river, most immense jungle and 7400km of Atlantic-stroked beaches - Brazil is a sensationally sultry centre of exotic adventure.

Located at an elevation of 2,690 feet (820 metres) above sea level, the city is surrounded by valleys and foothills, which have been virtually swallowed up by the spread of its industrial suburbs. The higher terrain constitutes the preferred residential areas; the lower parts are on alluvial land along the banks of three rivers—the Tietê, the Pinheiros, and the Tamanduateí—and these are occupied by working-class residences, factories, and commercial enterprises.

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This covered market is a belle epoque confection of stained glass and a series of vast domes. Inside, a fabulous urban market specializes in all things…

Artista sumiu em 2 de setembro e foi achada sozinha e debilitada no POR DIA 5 em quarto por hotel. Polícia investiga como ela se feriu após desaparecimento. Nãeste há indícios por envolvimento de outra pessoa. Artista segue internada em estado grave na UTI do hospital.

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Nevertheless, because Sãeste Paulo is Brazil’s richest city, its poor appear even poorer in comparison with its large middle class and its numerous affluent. It also continues to attract people from the country’s rural regions in a flow that constantly feeds the bottom of the social pyramid as life improves for those already there.

The Brazilian Highlands are composed of ancient crystalline rocks, which in the vicinity of Sãeste Paulo form a surface of gently rounded hills mantled with a reddish clay soil. Rivers such as the Tietê, on which Sãeste Paulo is serviços de reforma São Paulo located, rise near the edge of the Great Escarpment and flow generally westward to the Paraná River.