Baixada Fluminense
The Baixada Fluminense is an area of the State of Rio de Janeiro, with the Brésil, called until the 19th century Baixada da Guanabara. She experienced a great development starting from the cycle mier of the country, at the 18th century, when she was an important corridor of flow of the Or of the Minas Gerais. Later, at the XIXe century, it was one of the first areas of palntations of Café in Brazil. She knew a great economic decline with the establishment of the railway line, during the Second empire (1840 - 1889), which emptied the traditional roads on the River and the Chemin S.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Baixada Fluminense started to undergo work of drainage, so as to make it livable for the great number of migrants coming from other areas, in the search of better living conditions in the federal capital of the time. In second half of this same century, its image of area with major social problems and a strong urban violence were reinforced, and it perdure still nowadays. Areas which constitute the State of Rio de Janeiro, it is more populated second, with more than three million inhabitants, being only exceeded by the capital of the State.
As for the municipalities which compose it, there is unanimity for Duque de Caxias, Nova Iguaçu, São João de Meriti, Nilópolis, Belford Roxo, Queimados and Mesquita, all in the North of the town of Rio de Janeiro. Some historians include there also Magé and Guapimirim (in the North-East of Rio de Janeiro); Japeri, Paracambi, Seropédica and Itaguaí (in the North-West of Rio de Janeiro).
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