São Paulo (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈpaʊ̯lʊ] ( listen)) is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial park and economic production of the country. It is the most populous subnational entity in the Western Hemisphere. The capital, São Paulo, is also the largest city in South America. Gastronomy and culture are mai...
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São Paulo (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈpaʊ̯lʊ] ( listen)) is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial park and economic production of the country. It is the most populous subnational entity in the Western Hemisphere. The capital, São Paulo, is also the largest city in South America. Gastronomy and culture are main strengths of this city, nicknamed "the land of the drizzle".
In pre-European times, the area that is now São Paulo state was occupied by the Tupi people's nation, who subsisted through hunting and cultivation. The first European to settle in the area was João Ramalho, a Portuguese sailor who may have been shipwrecked around 1510, ten years after the first Portuguese landfall in Brazil. He married the daughter of a local chieftain and settled. In 1532, the first colonial expedition, led by Martim Afonso de Sousa of Portugal, landed at São...
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