Add to ORKGTeaching ResourceTeaching ResourceViaduto do Chá area in downtown São Paulo. With a metropolitan population of over 15 million, São Paulo is the industrial capital of Brazil and is responsible for nearly 40% of the industrial output (over 50% on a state level). Founded in 1554 by Jesuit priests on a plateau at the foot of the Serra da Cantareira (a branch of Serra da Mantiqueira), it was not until the coffee boom that it developed into a major trading and industrial center. Beginning in the late Nineteenth century large numbers of Japanese, German, Italian, Arab, and other immigrants flowed into the city contributing to its growth and cosmopolitanism). These numbers of foreign immigrants declined after World War II, however, increasing indu...
