"Curitiba, Parana - Brazil" a Curitiba Travel Page by lichinga

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The "Capital Ecologica", i.e. the ecological capital: this is the way people from Curitiba define their home city, due to the high sense of neatness and environment conscience that reigns all over the city. It's been the distinctive sign of Curitiba in the recent years, together with good administration and a high sense of self-identification in the city itself.
Curitiba, capital town of the Parana state in the Southern region of Brazil (450 km southbound from Sao Paulo, 900 km from Rio de Janeiro) has been growing at an astonishing rate of 6.5 % in the latest 25 years, it has now nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants and its landscape seems very modern and attractive.
As in any Brazilian city, the social conflicts are strong and the distance between rich and poor people is so wide there's almost no hope to see it reducing in the near future. Curitiba makes these differences to seem less evident than anywhere else: somebody say it is due to the cold climate and the continuous rain, which makes life impossible to simple survivors!