Economy
The city is now considered one of the most important sights of Brazil, receiving tourists from the center-south of the country and countries like Argentina, Portugal, the United States, Israel and France . The place also has one or two dozen luxury hotels and hundreds of smaller hotels, but good quality and with an international airport capable of landing aircraft of similar size to the Boeing 767 and Airbus A310 . Apart from tourism, other important activities are agriculture (especially the cashew apple, the coconut ), the reforestation with eucalyptus trees, the cattle, the trade and services.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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