Campo Grande

The region where the city is located was in ancient times mandatory way for travellers who wanted to go by land from São Paulo or Minas Gerais to northern Mato Grosso. During the early 1900s the railway was completed connecting Campo Grande to Corumbá, in the northwest region of the state, and Bauru, São Paulo. Also in the beginning of the 20th century, Campo Grande became the Western Brazilian Army Headquarters, making it an important military center.

The increasing market made the city an important trade center, making the population increase from 140,000 people in 1970 up to 800,000 people in 2006.

In 1977, the State of Mato Grosso was divided in two, and Campo Grande was made the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, (the southern portion of the original Mato Grosso). Today, the city has its own culture, which is a mix of those ancient travellers' cultures, with its songs (main local rhythms: vanerão, chamamé - with diverse characteristics from other places), food (sobá, a version of the traditional soba from Okinawa), churrasco - the State is the largest producer of beef in Brazil). Its people are unique, made of mixes from all parts of Brazil and of the world, with many Japanese (we have to consider that most of them are from the island of Okinawa, that has significant cultural/historical differences from the mainland Japan), Portuguese, Lebanese immigrants.

1 History
2 Events
- 2.1 Campo Grande Film Festival
3 Twin Towns
4 External links

[edit] History

Campo Grande started as a small village founded in 1877 by farmers José Antônio Pereira and Manoel Vieira de Sousa (a.k.a. Manoel Olivério) who came from Minas Gerais just after the end of the War of the Triple Alliance. They founded the village, known as Santo Antônio de Campo Grande at that time, near the Serra de Maracaju cliffs, at the confluence of two streams. These streams were named Prosa and Segredo (Portuguese for conversation and secret respectively) and today their wetted perimeters are two of the most important avenues of the city.

In the end of 1877 the founder built the first church of the village. The houses roughly aligned formed the first street, known as Rua Velha (Old Street), today Rua 26 de Agosto (August 26 Street). This street ended where today is a square in honor of the immigrants that came to the city later.

It started to develop relatively fast because its privileged climate and location. These factors drew people from other regions of the country, especially the South, the Southeast and the Northeast regions. It was officially recognized as a municipality by the State Government in August 26, 1899 and it was renamed Campo Grande.

[edit] Events

[edit] Campo Grande Film Festival

It's a film festival held annually in the months of January and February and has been arranged since 2004. It focuses on the independent cinema presenting Brazilian films and foreign films as well. It also presents regional films and short films.

[edit] Twin Towns

- Turin, Italy

[edit] External links

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