Boca do Lixo (, ''Garbage Mouth'') is the popular name given to Santa Efigênia area between the streets Rua do Triunfo and Rua Vitória, in Luz neighborhood located in downtown of
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
. Boca was usually characterized by its
night club
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Nightclubs gener ...
s and
sexual services
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establishments. The area was also home to a flourishing cinema industry known as
Mouth of Garbage Cinema, especially in the 1970s. It became known as ''
Cracolândia
Cracolândia (literally ''Crackland'' in Portuguese) is a popular denomination for a region of the city of São Paulo, which is notorious for high incidence of drug trafficking and drug use in public. It is located within the central region of the ...
'' ("
Crack Land") in the 1990s, a surrounding identified with
drugs
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,
organised crime
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and violence. Today, Boca is a constantly policed area and crime rate has dramatically fallen.
Geography of São Paulo
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