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Vila Belmira
Vila Belmira is a rural neighborhood of Itapevi, municipality in the state of São Paulo, located southwest of its urban center. The postcode of the neighborhood begins with 06675. Being a rural neighborhood, residences are the predominant farms and country houses with large pastures for livestock, rich vegetation and unpaved roads. Besides rich vegetation, the neighborhood also has natural springs and Atlantic Forest largely preserved its territory. Vegetation The vegetation of Vila Belmira is very rich and consists mainly of native Atlantic Forest fragments and Araucaria moist forest, but these two biomes are increasingly diminishing in the region due to the advancement of urbanization. The neighborhood also has natural springs amidst the Atlantic Forest. Culture Although the district belongs to the municipality of Itapevi in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, it still contains influences of the popular rural culture thus making the neighborhood having an independent c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itapevi
Itapevi is a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo located in the western part of the Greater São Paulo metropolitan area (35 km to the west of São Paulo city). The population is 240,961 (2020 est.) in an area of 82.7 km2. Its boundaries are Santana de Parnaíba to the north, Barueri in the northeast, Jandira in the east, Cotia to the south, Vargem Grande Paulista to the southwest and São Roque to the west. The city is served by Castello Branco and Raposo Tavares highways and also by Line 8 of CPTM, the São Paulo Metropolitan Railway Company. Etymology The toponym comes from the Tupi language Itapevi and means "river of flat stones," according to two books: "Vocabulário Tupi-Guarani - Português", by Prof. Silveira Bueno (Brasilivros Editora), and "A Origem dos Nomes dos Municípios Paulistas" (Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo, 2003), by Enio Squeff and Helder Perri Ferreira. Says the constant entry of final work: "Itapevi (by Tupi - itá pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera. The Atlantic Forest has ecoregions within the following biome categories: seasonal moist and dry broad-leaf tropical forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, and mangrove forests. The Atlantic Forest is characterized by a high biodiversity and endemism. It was the first environment that the Portuguese colonists encountered over 500 years ago, when it was thought to have had an area of , and stretching an unknown distance inland, making it, back then, the second largest rainforest on the planet, only behind the Amazon rainforest. Over 85% of the original area has been deforested, threatening many plant and animal species with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araucaria Moist Forest
The Araucaria moist forests, officially classified as mixed ombrophilous forest (Portuguese: "Floresta Ombrófila Mista") in Brazil, are a montane subtropical moist forest ecoregion. The forest ecosystem is located in southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina. The ecoregion is a southern portion of the Atlantic Forest. The ecoregion also includes select areas of open field called "campos de cima da serra" or "coxilhas" (highland fields). Setting The moist forests cover an area of , encompassing a region of mountains and plateaus in the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, and extending into Misiones Province of Argentina. The ecoregion lies above , rising to elevation on the high slopes of the Serra Geral. The ecoregion is bounded by the Alto Paraná Atlantic forests to the north, west, and south, the Cerrado savannas and shrublands to the northeast, The Serra do Mar coastal forests to the east, and the Uruguayan savanna to the sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granja Carolina
Granja Carolina is a rural neighborhood of the municipality of Itapevi and the city of Cotia, in the state of São Paulo. Granja Carolina is an old farm that belongs to the estate of Celso Santos. With an acreage of 8,896,100.25 m2, it is divided into two tracts: one located in Itapevi with 5,660,320.00 m2, and another in Cotia, with 3,235,780.25 m2. A partnership agreement was established between the owners and Alphaville Urbanismo SA, in which the owners provided the whole property and Alphaville would implement real estate developments in the neighborhood. A large real estate development (Vila Florestal - Reserva Cotia) was developed by Alphaville to deploy a high standard condominium in the neighborhood. Vila Florestal - Reserva Cotia "Vila Florestal - Reserva Cotia" is a large real estate project of the responsibility of AlphaVille, the company that implemented the condominium complex in the upscale city of Barueri. The project will have two residential settlements with to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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