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"Smile City"
"Brazilian ecological capital"
"Capital of trees called Araucárias"
Curitiba is the capital of Paraná state, placed in the south region of Brazil and whose official foundation was dated of March 29th, 1693. The "smile city" called Curitiba is the seventh most populous and the biggest city in the southern by a population of 1.828.092 inhabitants.
Nowadays it is considered the Brazilian capital with better quality of life, including a diversified industrial center of more than 500 companies that gives the position of fourth largest economy in the country and the fifth of the best cities for investment in the Latin America.
The high level of life quality and the broad framework of services also provide to Curitiba, along 3 consecutive years, the title of the best Brazilian city to make business.
In 2003, it was elected as the American capital of culture, where the first Brazilian university called Universidade Federal do Paraná was founded in 1912.
Furthermore Curitiba is known for its urban differentiated solutions and its integrated system of public transport working on the regular transit ways as a model to be followed around the world. This city is connected by 4 federal highways to the main Brazilian cities, that reveals its urban development.
The international airport called Afonso Pena is placed on the 45 thousand square meters area, receiving more than 105 regular flights, domestic and international ones. The airport infrastructure has three floors, 30 check in places, 6 embarkation and disembarkation points, bathrooms, escalators and panoramic elevator, besides of many craft and service stores there.
In 2007 the city was recognized as the third place on the fifteen cities with the largest green area world list, with more than 30 parks and forests, offers 51 square meters of green area for each inhabitant. Actually the "Brazilian ecological capital" has been recycled 22 % of total waste produced, around 450 ton a day.
