São Paulo cannot deny the habit of working and the vocation to business. Therefore be known as the most important state economically speaking in Latin America, only with too much effort. But the state is not only this. Besides its million of cultural attractions, it also offers the best options in tourism. Dreched by the Atlantic, its coastline has 622 kilometers spotted by beaches of all kinds and sizes.

  The capital city, also called São Paulo is another oasis for the tourist option. Only the business tourism, creates more than 45 thousand events per year. In the capital city, some places you cannot miss. The Bela Vista(An Italian neighbourhood), the Liberdade(a Japanese neighbourhood), and the streets: 25 de Março (arabian neighbourhood) and José Paulino(israel neighbourhood). In those places one can have a great idea of the different immigrants that settled themselves to improve São Paulo.

  It is the State with the biggest population, the biggest industrial park, the biggest economic production, the biggest register of immigrants and, as also it could not leave of being, with all the complexity of the State cosmopolita of America of the Sul.São 645 cities and a population that 36 million inhabitants exceed. With the best infrastructure and qualified man power, São Paulo can exactly be called " the Locomotive of Brazil ". The State produces of everything, mainly products of high technology. But the prominence is not alone in the industry. The native of São Paulo also made of agriculture and cattle a power

• Area: 248.808,8 kilometers squared (2,91% of the domestic territory)
• Location: Southeast of the Southeastern Region
• Relief: Narrow coastal  plain limited by the Saw of the Sea, with rivers and fens, plateaus and depressions in the remaining portion of the territory
• Higher point: Rock of the Mine in the Saw of the Mantiqueira 2.770m
• Main rivers: Tietê, Paranapanema, Grande, Turvo, do Peixe, Paraíba do Sul e Piracicaba
  
• Vegetation: fens in the coast, Atlantic Bush and tropical forest in the remaining portion of the territory.
• Climate: Tropical Atlantic in the tropical coast and of altitude in the inward
• Cities: 645
• Cities with more population (Censo 2000 IBGE) :
  São Paulo (15.405.867)
  Guarulhos (1.071.268)
  Campinas (968.172)
  
• Inhabitant who was born in the State of São Paulo is called : Paulista
• Inhabitant who was born in the capital of São Paulo is called : Paulistano
• Population: 36.969.476 (Censo 2000 IBGE)
  
• Demographic density: 141,81 Inhabitants/ sq/m
  
• Illiteracy: 7,36% (data of 1996)
  
• Participation in the  PIB: 40,62%
  
• Capital: São Paulo - Foundation:  January , 25th ,1554