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Praia Grande is a beach town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Not far from the city of São Paulo, is one of the coastal development graced by a beautiful and vast beach where paulitanos escape weekends.

Praia Grande is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, in the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bSantos, in the microregion of Santos. The Estimated population in 2008 was 249 533 inhabitants and the area is 145 square kilometers, resulting in a density of 1444.12 inhabitants per km ². The city of Praia Grande is one of the most popular beaches of Brazil. In high season gets about 1.4 million tourists, nearly five times the population down, the latter also has been expanding rapidly: Praia Grande grows about 18 000 inhabitants per year

... is not the most exclusive beach in the region, nor the cheapest. Rather a good-sized city, although compared to São Paulo is a sea resort because São Paulo is a giant in proportions that rival those of New York, middle-class.



Praia Grande is one of 15 counties considered resorts by the state of São Paulo, by fulfilling certain preconditions set by state law. There are other cities that are not spas, resorts remain. This state ensures that these municipalities more money from the state, through DADE, to promote regional tourism. In addition, the city acquired the right to add your name beside the title of the spas, the term for which is appointed by the two municipal official hours as the reference state.

Praia Grande way, together with the municipalities Bertioga Cubatao, Guaruja, Itanhaém Mongagua, Peruíbe, Santos and Sao Vicente, Santos metropolitan area, created by Complementary Law 815 of June 30, 1996, becoming therefore the first Brazilian state capital metropolitan created without state. Taking into account the population of all cities, the region of 1,476,820 inhabitants pussui, according to the IBGE Census 2000.



Although it is political emancipation Recently, the area currently covered by the municipality of Praia Grande was one of the first areas colonized by the Portuguese, which began with the arrival of Martin Afonso in 1532. The first town founded by the explorer, sent by the Portuguese crown, was as São Vicente, Praia Grande, which remained a part until 1967.

After emancipation, the city has slightly accelerated the pace of growth experienced since the 1950's, gaining a higher quality public services, given the proximity of government City with the reality of the local population. In the 1980's, the city gained a new impetus to its growth with the opening of the bridge de Mar Chiquita (in the final stretch of immigrants to the highway), which connects the island of São Vicente in the city and solving two problems at once: in addition to transit ventilation in saturated fats Bridge, the city gained a direct link to the capital without having to go through the cities of Santos and Sao Vicente, in order to access the Via Anchieta, then the only option to reach the capital. Therefore, Playa Grande, is now the center closest to the capital.

However, this facility access has brought major disadvantages, which would be resolved until 1993, when the city began a revolution: the transport system has been completely renovated, over 90% of streets were paved, the wastewater was initiated expansion of the collection (which began with 60% of households in 2012 and reach 100%) to treat and more than three miles from the coast, the coast and the main tourist attractions are completely undeveloped, entry was forbidden tour bus without permission of the municipality, the road system has been completely revised and modernization in the interventions that took place until 2006.

Some projects have not yet been deployed in the city, regardless of the administration, such as airport charges in the region of Andaraguá, campus State (UNESP) and Federal (UNIFESP), transforming municipal waste in an ecological park (waiting for soil decontamination) and Route 700, linking the Anhanguera immigrants.

Until the early 1990, the majority of residents living near the beach of Praia Grande, mainly concentrated in the region between Boqueron Beach, where the downtown and beach Ocian. However, since mid 1990, the construction boom, which occurred through a series of infrastructure works, landscaping and urbanization, which previously were too unstable, eventually attracting thousands of families in the village in search of jobs with contractors and builders, causing a large swelling of the population in the region between the current South Highway, Route Father Manoel da Nóbrega and Serra do Mar-dependent suburbs, so quiet Garden, Ribeirópolis, Fern Garden, among others, but now, since they are all in the process of urbanization, with schools, kindergartens, public transport and the soil in most of its streets, and future investments by the size of the city at these sites, such as $ 16 million to be invested in peripheral Gloria district in its complete reconstruction.



In 2009, the IBGE estimates a population of 249 551 inhabitants in Praia Grande