São Paulo

The federal state São Paulo adjoins to the north to the south Rio de Janeiro at Minas Gerais to the west at Mato Grosso Do Sul at Paraná and eastern. He has an extensive coastal region which is interrupted by islands with miscellaneous appearance as well as an offshore lowland. The relief is in the inland region the western plateau indicated by rises of the Atlantic plateaux as well as the and deep-seated areas of the peripheral lowlands.



The settlement of São Paulo started in São Vincente, one of the oldest villages of Brazil. It lost his name to at first governor shaft, its activities confined himself to the farming merely to the personal use as well as the catch of Latin-American Indians for the internal slave market the itself. The little village became São Paulo to in the middle of the 16th century the governor shaft appointed, since expeditions ran this one from her to the slave catch of the Latin-American Indians and the bases of the present Brazilian limit fixed was. Expeditions for the goods and person promotion which started the Rio Tietê from São Paulo about then started with the discovery of the gold in Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Goiás around himself along the Rio Paraná to go to the new mines. The geographical limits suffered comprehensive changes in the course of the colonial epoch.



The farming got economic support with the sugar cane plantations in the second half of the 18th century. You covered the northern coastal region as well as the region between Itu and Sorocaba. And coffee plantations which advanced the economic growth of São Paulo and which made province to one of the richest, the epoch then copied himself at the end of the century.

With the independence explanation of Brazil São Paulo took an outstanding position by the expansion of the coffee. This had the making of Strassen and railway routes, the modernization of the ports, as well as a completely extended infrastructure the consequence. The coffee boom was, also the reason for the gigantic immigration waves of foreigners which arrived within the first decades of the 20th century and himself in the country sitting down.

The economic development of São Paulo unites intensive character in the course of the first 30 years of the Brazilian republic of besass. As of the thirties the economy lost her place from the country economic exports to the increasing Industrialisierung. Foreseen furthermore São Paulo embodies this one grösste industry concentration finance town, a place of modern services and the grössten downtown Latin America of this nationwidely.