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São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (Saint Paul of the Fields of Piratininga in Portuguese) was the village that grew into São Paulo, Brazil in the region known as Campos de Piratininga. It was the inland correspondent of São Vicente, founded as a religious Mission and a Jesuit Royal College by priests José de Anchieta and Manuel da Nóbrega in January 25, 1554 (the date of the first mass and the anniversary of Saint Paul's conversion). The village was initially populated by Portuguese colonists and two tribes of the Guainás Amerindians. Later, São Paulo became the origin of the Bandeiras in the great colonial expansion of the 17th century.
In the place of the original modest mud house which was built by the Jesuits in 1554, a much larger and solid building with a church and a seminar was erected in 1653, known as the Pátio do Colégio (Portuguese for School Yard). After an extensive rebuilding it presents itself in good shape, the oldest building in São Paulo. It houses the Anchieta Museum and a cultural center.
The village of São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga was settled as the altiplane correspondent to the one of São Vicente, Brazil, capital of the only successful Capitania of the South. Its inhabitants, called Paulistas were very poor and started explorations called Bandeiras in search of precious metals and stones, runaway slaves, and to make new Indian slaves. Those participating in the expeditions were the Bandeirantes, including allied Indians. The language then spoken was the Língua Geral.
While the Bandeiras were responsible for multiplying Portuguese territory in America, their greatest immediate success was in finding gold in a relatively nearby mountainous region, divided from the Capitania de São Vicente (current state of São Paulo) by a low, forested mountain range, called the Matos Gerais (General Woods).
The Bandeirantes didn't have the resources or even the numbers to settle the Mines of the General Woods, in Portuguese Minas dos Matos Gerais. Thus the mines were disputed by more numerous, better equipped recent settlers arriving expressly from Portugal, nicknamed the emboabas. The ensuing Emboabas' War ended with the defeat of the paulistas, the opening of a New Way to the Mines of the General Woods (Caminho Novo das Minas dos Matos Gerais) linking the capital of the new Minas Gerais province, the village of Vila Rica do Ouro Preto (Rich Village of the Black Gold), to the port of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro at the Guanabara Bay in the Rio de Janeiro province.
The Greater São Paulo () is a nonspecific term for the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil.
Paulistas are the inhabitants of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and of its antecessor the Capitaincy of São Vicente, whose capital early shifted from the village of São Vicente to the one of São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga.
The early population of São Paulo consisted mainly of indigenous Amerindian allied either to the Portuguese settlers or to the French, who had come in search of Brazilwood and briefly undertook to settle as well. The Portuguese settlements were small, and the language used was the Língua Geral.
As the Bandeirantes gained power and the vice-kingdom of Brazil developed, Portuguese surpassed the Língua Geral and the Portuguese element predominated in the population, the Indians being either absorbed or killed, or expelled inland to the remaining Jesuit Reductions in Brazil or Paraguay. But the province of São Paulo, enlarged by the Bandeiras to include Mato Grosso, Goiás, Paraná and Santa Catarina, remained undeveloped, having neither the gold of Minas Gerais nor the sugar cane of Pernambuco. As a consequence, it did not receive the same influx of black slaves during the colonial times as the more prosperous provinces of Brazil. Nevertheless, this ethnicity increased substantially in São Paulo during the Brazilian Empire, as they were transferred from declining regions of Brazil (such as the Northeast) to work in coffee plantations.
The economic development of São Paulo only really began to develop in earnest with the founding of coffee plantations in the nineteenth century, when the slave trade began its decline. Portuguese imperial policies were instituted, which mandated that the population be increased through white immigration and that the borders be secured, in order to keep Brazil as European as possible. As a result, São Paulo manned its plantations with European and, later, Japanese and Arab immigrants, who formed the backbone of Paulista entrepreneurship that currently distinguishes their state in Brazil. The main immigrants were Italians, but Germans, Spaniards, Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Lithuanians, Hungarians and Armenians, among others, can also be found, as well as some US Southerners escaping from the US Civil War and the abolition of slavery in their native country.
As a curiosity, the influx of Italians was so large that during a period in the beginning of the 20th century the capital city of São Paulo had more Italian than Brazilian citizens, and the city developed a distinctively Italianised accent of Portuguese.
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Taquarussu (also written as Taquaruçu) is a village of the Brazilian state of Tocantins, located 30 km. from the capital of Tocantins, Palmas. Famous for its many waterfalls, surrounded by an impressive natural environment, it's an ecotourism destination. It's friendly population is famous for its handcrafts industry, mostly using local natural resources like Capim dourado, Babaçu, and seeds from local plants.
This is a list of favelas in Brazil. This Portuguese word is commonly used in Brazil
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Guarani is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The population in 2004 is 8,763. This place name comes from the Tupi language.