Baixada Fluminense
Municipalities of Baixada Fluminense.
The Baixada Fluminense (Bajada Fluminense) is a region of the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) known until the 19th century as Bajada de la Guanabara. He met a certain development from the mining cycle in Brazil, in the eighteenth century, when it was important gold transit corridor of Minas Gerais. Later, as early as the nineteenth century, it was one of the first coffee growing regions in Brazil. It suffered a great economic decline with the creation of the railroad, already in Second Reinado (1840-1889), which emptied the traditional routes by the rivers and roads of the region.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Bajada Fluminense began to receive drainage works, so as to enable it to receive the large number of migrants coming from other regions of the country in search of better living conditions in the then federal capital. In the second half of this same century, its image was consolidated as a region of great social problems and urban violence, which lasts until today. Of the regions where the State of Rio de Janeiro is usually divided, it is the second most populous, with more than three million inhabitants, only being surpassed by the capital.
As for the municipalities that compose it, there is unanimity regarding Duque de Caxias, Nueva Iguaçu, São João de Meriti, Nilópolis, Belford Pinturúra, Ardidos and Mezquita, all north of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Some scholars also include Magé and Guapimirim (east), Japeri, Paracambi, Seropédica and Itaguaí (west and northwest). The Baixada Fluminense is one of the main areas that make up the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro. Popular culture
La Baixada Fluminense was chosen in 2004 by the renowned network television network Rede O'Globo, to set the main scenes of the successful telenovela Lady of Destiny, starring actress Susana Vieira. The same is the story of a woman from Pernambuco (Maria do Carmo Ferreira da Silva) who arrives in Rio de Janeiro with her family, in full development of the march of one hundred thousand, against the military dictatorship of the de facto president Artur da Costa and Silva. After being arrested and released for her participation in this mobilization, Do Carmo decides to settle in the poor and small neighborhood known as the Baixada Fluminense, where it begins to promote its constructive empire which evolves along with the neighborhood, which happens to be a very populous neighborhood.
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