Vila Belmira is a rural neighborhood of
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.
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, 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
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 th ...
fragments and
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 northeast ...
, 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 culture.
Access
The neighborhood is currently located in the rural town of Itapevi and is bounded by the neighborhoods of
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 ...
and Chácaras Monte Serrat and a condominium, now called Vila Verde (formerly Transurb).
The municipal bus company Itapevi, Benfica BBTT makes 6 trips back and forth during weekdays and 3 trips back and forth on Saturdays and Sundays with buses leaving the terminal toward the municipal district.
References
Neighbourhoods of Itapevi
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