What is the largest city and industrial center in Brazil?

Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, the largest industrial center, and one of the four largest cities in the world, is located on the plateau more than 800 meters above sea level at the edge of the great cliff in the Mare Mountains in the southeast of the border, 63 kilometers away from the outer harbor in the southeast, with an urban area of 1624 square kilometers, and a greater Sao Paulo area of more than 2,300 square kilometers including suburbs, with a population of 1300. Although the city is located near the Tropic of Capricorn, Sao Paulo was originally an Indian village. 1October 25th,1554,65438+Portuguese colonists came here, found its ideal geographical location, and built a small town. Since this day happened to be the day when Catholics commemorated Sao Paulo, they named the town Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo was founded in 17 1 1. 1822, where Brazil declared its independence. By 1880, Sao Paulo is still a small town with an area of 2 square kilometers and a population of 40,000. However, by the end of19th century, due to the large-scale cultivation of coffee in nearby areas and the influx of immigrants, towns began to develop rapidly. By 1940, the urban population had exceeded130,000. According to related reports, Sao Paulo is the fastest growing city in the world. Sao Paulo gives people the impression that it is a very prosperous scene. Overlooking this modern city in South America from the plane, there are rows of high-rise buildings and traffic on the wide roads. The 64,000 streets in this city are criss-crossed, dense as cobwebs. Many buildings in the urban area are as high as thirty or forty stories. For example, the Bank of S? o Paulo is 32 stories high, and a TV tower was built on the roof of 160 meters. The Italian building is 4 1 floor high, with a restaurant and observation deck at the top. From the railing, you can see the whole city. The business in Sao Paulo is very prosperous, and the business districts are mainly concentrated in Direita Avenue, "1 1 5" Avenue, San Bento Avenue, Antonio Prado Plaza and * * * and Guo Plaza. * * * In the garden in the center of the square, there is a handicraft market with stalls selling gems, antiques, wood carvings, leather products, stamps, coins and famous paintings. Every Sunday, Sao Paulo citizens and foreign tourists flock to make the market crowded. There is a big market covering an area of 27,000 square meters in the city center, with a wide variety of goods and low prices. People come and go all day long, bustling and lively. In addition, 1600 large and small hotels and restaurants are distributed in every corner of the city, but mainly concentrated in the city center, the southeast area where the affluent class lives, and the west area with high consumption level. Brazil is known as the "coffee kingdom", and its coffee production accounts for about 1/8 of the world total. The area near Sao Paulo is an important coffee producing area in Brazil. There are many kinds of cafes in the streets and alleys of the city, and customers are full all day long. Sao Paulo is the largest industrial city in Brazil, and the formation and development of urban industry is closely related to the economy of Sao Paulo State. /kloc-Before the 0/9th century, Sao Paulo was rich in cotton, rice and coffee, so traditional industries such as cotton spinning, grain processing and coffee processing were the main industries in Sao Paulo, the capital of the state. Later metallurgy, machinery, automobile, electric power, food, cement, chemistry, rubber, tobacco, paper and other industries. They are gradually developed. The main reason why these industrial sectors can flourish is that there are abundant hydraulic resources near the city, and most industrial raw materials can be obtained from S? o Paulo State and its nearby areas. In the past two or three decades, Sao Paulo has also built a Brazilian electronics industry center, an automobile industry base and the largest oil refinery in China. There are more than 30,000 factories and enterprises in Sao Paulo, with more than 2 million industrial workers, accounting for half of Brazil's national industry. Sao Paulo is also a cultural city, with universities and colleges such as the University of Sao Paulo, Catholic University and Medical University, as well as the Sao Paulo Library with more than one million books. There is Barton Viper Research Institute in the suburbs, which was built in 190 1. It breeds and displays more than 2,000 kinds of poisonous snakes, with tens of thousands of them. 285 million doses of detoxified serum and 25 million doses of vaccines against typhoid, tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria are produced every year. It is a world-recognized research center for poisonous snakes, attracting more than 300,000 foreign tourists every year. There are many museums in downtown Sao Paulo, among which the most famous ones are the Sao Paulo Museum of Fine Arts, the Brazilian Museum of Fine Arts, the Furniture Museum, the Aviation Museum, the Science Museum and the Indian Museum of Folk Arts and Handicrafts. These museums are unique in architecture and rich in collections, which are very attractive to tourists. There are many famous buildings in downtown S? o Paulo, the most striking of which is the Catholic Cathedral, which is one of the largest churches in South America. This church was built in 1930s and completed in 1954, the 400th anniversary of the founding of Sao Paulo. It is a typical Gothic building with magnificent momentum and colorful features, and the remains of many saints are preserved in the basement.