Brazil

The Brazilian urbanization process began in 1940, as a result of economic modernization and great industrial development thanks to foreign capital inflows into the country. Transnational companies preferred to settle in cities where population concentration was greater and with better

The name Amazonas , which was transmitted from the river to the region and, later, to the largest state in Brazil, is due to the Spanish Francisco de Orellana, who in 1541 claimed to have fought a tribe of hardened