Santíssimo
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Santíssimo is a neighborhood of lower class in the west region of Rio de Janeiro, near Campo Grande.

In the beginning the railroad stations proceeded on this order: Bangu
Bangu (neighborhood)
Bangu is a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, RJ. It is a lower middle class neighborhood. It is located in the western area of the city being one of the most populated districts, with 244,518 inhabitants [1] distributed in an area of 4570.69 ha...

, Senador Camará
Senador Camará
Senador Camará is a populous neighborhood in the west region of Rio de Janeiro, with 111.231 residents distributed in an area of 1,723.59 hectares, of lower class...

, Santíssimo, Senador Vasconcelos
Senador Vasconcelos
Senador Vasconcelos is a neighborhood of lower class in the west region of Rio de Janeiro.- Datas of the neighborhood :*Total area : 644.18 hectares.*Total population : 27,285.*Total of domiciles : 7,829....

, and Campo Grande. Santíssimo was prosperous in the epoch that Rio de Janeiro exported oranges to foreign countries. There were small stores near market places where the oranges
Orange (fruit)
An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....

 were beneficials for exportation. With the end of the rural period in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Santíssimo became disowned into a neighborhood merely dormitory or a neighborhood of passages to the regions more forward on the map of the city of Rio de Janeiro, on the direction of the west region.

Nowadays the neihborhood of Santíssimo has a constant increase of its population in irregular lands that multiply compromising even the rich mountainous geography of the region. Stuck in the middle of Parque da Pedra Branca (White Stone Park, in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

), the neighborhood of Santíssimo is also one more example of the neglect of local authorities to control the occupation of the urban space.
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