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Publication Date
3-2-2009
Description
Mature coffee trees on one of the many plantations in southeastern Brazil. With the decline of mining at the end of the Eighteenth century, discouraged settlers moved to other areas in southern Minas Gerais and in the Sao Paulo plateau. Previously Sao Paulo had been merely a transition area for people passing through to search for gold and precious stones in Minas Gerais. By the early Nineteenth century the cultivation of coffee would transform the economy of the region and the country in the following years.Pés maduros de café em uma das muitas plantações no sudeste do Brasil. Com o declínio da mineração no fim do século dezoito, os colonizadores se mudaram para outras áreas, na de Minas Gerais e no planalto de São Paulo. São Paulo, anteriormente, tinha sido meramente uma área de transição para transeuntes na procura de ouro e pedras preciosas em Minas Gerais. No início do século dezenove o cultivo do café transformaria a economia da região e do país,
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico
Rights
Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1991
Keywords
Brazil: Sao Paulo
