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Santa Cruz (''Saint Cross'') is an extensive and populous neighborhood of the middle class, lower middle and low in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the farther from the central city. Cut by the Santa Cruz extension of the urban passenger rail network of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, has a very diverse landscape, with commercial areas, residential and industrial. It is the seat of the nineteenth Administrative Region (AR), comprising also the surrounding neighborhood of Paciência. The nineteenth-AR, in turn, belongs to the Planning Area 5 of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro and is subject to Subprefeitura da Zona Oeste. Since the installation of Itaguaí Port, is a rapidly developing city. It is 445 years old, it being important preserved monuments. But it is a place of contrasts. It is one of the most populated districts, and at the same time, due to its vast land area, one of the least densely populated, has an industrial district, but in your landscape still rules many unexplored areas. Its HDI in 2000 was 0.742, the 119 placed the city of Rio de Janeiro, among 126 areas analyzed. ==Etymology== As stated in the rare work entitled History of the Imperial farm of Santa Cruz published by Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, authored by Jose de Saldanha da Gama, who was one of the overseers of the farm in 1860, the Jesuits placed a large wooden cross, painted in black, seated on a stone base supported by a granite pillar. This cruise gave his name to Santa Cruz on December 30 of 1567.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Breve Histórico de Santa Cruz )〕 Later, during the Empire, the cross was replaced by another of smaller dimensions and there is now a cross in the same place, but this is a replica built by the Brazilian Army . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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