Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo, name of a town of Brazil, and of the province situated between Paraguay and the Atlantic, south of the provinces of Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro. The mountains yield very fine timber, and the slopes and plains are generally fertile, a large part of the area being drained and watered by the Rio de la Plata and some of its affiuents. The capital, Sao Paulo, in the northwest of the province, is a few miles south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Behind it to the south rise mountain-chains, which run parallel to the coast.