The southern Brazilian City of Curitiba has attracted attention from architects, urban planners and an increasing number of sources; it has even been mentioned in the novel The Partner by John Grisham and featured in a Brazilian film called Oriundi starring Anthony Quinn. About 250 miles southwest of São Paulo, and separated from the Atlantic port city of Paranaguá by a small mountain range, Curitiba is located approximately 3,000 feet above sea level at the onset of a plateau that extends westward for 500 miles, reaching to the spectacular Iguaçu Falls on the border of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. In the year 2000, the city had a population of approximately 1,650,000, and the metropolitan region, nearly 2,600,000 - the latter, only an eighth the size of Metropolitan São Paulo, but two-thirds as large as Metropolitan Belo Horizonte, which had replaced Rio de Janeiro in the early 1980s as the second largest industrial center in the country.
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