Sunday morning drive from Perus to the most famous cable-stayed bridge in Sao Paulo.
Perus is a district located in the northwest of the city of São Paulo.
Ponte Octávio Frias de Oliveira is a cable-stayed bridge located in the city of São Paulo, state of São Paulo, Brazil. It opened on May 10, 2008, after three years of construction, and today it is one of the city's most famous postcards.
The bridge is formed by two cable-stayed lanes in independent 60º curves that cross the Pinheiros River, in the Brooklin district, being the only cable-stayed bridge in the world with two curved lanes connected to the same mast.
The bridge structure, next to the "José Bonifácio Coutinho Nogueira" viaducts, are part of the Real Parque Road Complex, which connects Marginal Pinheiros and Avenida Jornalista Roberto Marinho. The complex provides access to neighborhoods such as Morumbi, Jabaquara and Campo Belo, constituting an alternative access to the Imigrantes Highway.
São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The municipality is also the world's 12th largest city proper by population. The city is the capital of the surrounding state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest state in Brazil. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas located around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Sorocaba and the Paraíba Valley) created the São Paulo Macrometropolis, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange.
