Fazenda Rio Grande

Fazenda Rio Grande is a Brazilian municipality in the country of Parana, that's part of the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba. Its population, in step with estimates of the IBGE of 2018, became of 98,368 population. Francisco Claudino Ferreira, near the parish of Sao Jose dos Pinhais, required an area of land, with which he fashioned Fazenda Rio Grande, as a result becoming the first landowner of the locality. This farm changed into shaped over an vintage Indian village, and the authentic name of the locality turned into Capocu.

The essential hobby of Fazenda Rio Grande became the breeding of race horses, whose most important client turned into the Brazilian Army itself. In 1913, through the intermediary of Joao Bettega, Tobias Pereira da Cruz acquiredan location of 487 hectares of land from Fazenda Rio Grande, and Jose Custodio dos Santos another 52.5 hectares inside the middle of the Mauricio River. From then on, the records of Rio Grande Farm is harassed with the commercial and populace growth of Curitiba, with direct action within the city land parceling of the region corresponding to the present day municipal headquarters. Such fractionation turned into because of the phenomena of urban profession of the town of Curitiba.