What is the origin of your neighbourhood’s name?
Below is a
quick and dirty list of some São Paulo districts and where their names come from:
Bixiga (Bela Vista)
The saying goes that an infection of the bladder
("bexiga" in Portuguese) was common in the farmland area of Bela
Vista in in the late nineteenth century and residents were labelled Bixigas as
a pejorative term. Another possibility is that an Italian resident known for
drinking heavily at the bars and taverns of Bela Vista, had a belly as round
and big as a party balloon (which is also called "bexiga" in
Portuguese), so, the area was nicknamed after him.
Ipiranga comes from the indigenous language Tupi. It
means red river which is the colour the rivers take when containing a lot of
the local red coloured earth.
Itaim Bibi the portuguese word bebê (baby) was adapted to
Bibi by slaves referring to the son of famous doctor Leopoldo Couto Magalhães.
Magalhães was also the owner of the Chácara Itaí. Hence th eneighbourhood name
Itai(m) Bibi.
Jardins means gardens in Portuguese not many of which seem
to have survived the passage of time.
Moema is a reference to a chracter in the poem Caramuru by
Santa Rita Durão
Perdizes - Joaquim Alves was one of the better own breeders
of partridges (perdizes) who live din the area at the end of the 19th
century. He lived in what is now known as Largo Padre Péricles. Hence the área
became known as Campo de Perdizes (partridge fields) and later simply Perdizes.
Pinheiros literally means pine trees and this because the
land which this neighbourhood occupies used to be an area of dense forest which
contained a Brazilian subtropical species of pine, Araucaria angustifolia,
which incidentally is very common in Curitiba and is the symbol of Paraná
state.
Tatuapé is another Tupi name meaning the path (apé) of the
armadillos (tatu).
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