Name of city: Curitiba.
Population : 1,764,540 (8th).
Area: 430.9 km2 (166.4 sq mi).
Location: Curitiba, Brazilian state, Brazil.
Website: Officialsite.
Curitiba is the capital and largest city of
the Brazilian state of Paraná. The city's population numbered approximately
1,760,500 people as of 2010, making it the eighth most populous city in the
country, and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan
area comprises 26 municipalities with a total population of over 3.2 million
(IBGE estimate in 2010), making it the seventh most populous in the country. Curitiba
is an important cultural, political, and economic center in Latin America.[3]
The city sits on a plateau at 932 metres (3,058 ft) above sea level. It is
located 105 kilometres (65 mi) west of the seaport of Paranaguá and is served
by the Afonso Pena International and Bacacheri airports. The city hosts the
Federal University of Paraná, established in 1912.
In the 1700s Curitiba possessed a favorable
location between cattle-breeding country and marketplaces, leading to a
successful cattle trade and the city's first major expansion. Later, between
1850 and 1950, it grew due to logging and agricultural expansion in the Paraná
State (first Araucaria logging, later mate and coffee cultivation and in the
1970s wheat, corn and soybean cultivation). In the 1850s waves of European
immigrants arrived in Curitiba, mainly Germans, Italians, Poles and Ukrainians,
contributing to the city's economic and cultural development. Nowadays, only
smaller numbers of foreign immigrants arrive, primarily from Middle Eastern and
other Latin American countries. The biggest expansion occurred after the 1950s,
with innovative urban planning that changed the population size from some
hundreds of thousands to more than a million people. Curitiba's economy is
based on industry and services and is the fourth largest in Brazil. Economic
growth occurred in parallel to a substantial inward flow of Brazilians from other
cities of the country, as approximately half of the city's population was not
born in Curitiba.
Street
View of Curitiba
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