Sorocaba,
Brazil - a Mechanical Engeneering Industry Leader
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Sorocaba
– in Sao Paulo state - is one of the biggest Brazilian cities,
with almost 600.000 inhabitants. Sorocata is
located 87 Kms /
54 miles south Sao Paulo (and is 500 Km / 310 miles distant from
Rio de Janeiro and 1000 Kms / 620 miles from Brasilia, the
capital).
Sorocaba
has a leading role in world engineering, namely in mechanical
one. Sorocaba's Industrial park involves more than 25 million
square meters and an extraordinary number of industries:
machinery, metallurgy, automobile, chemical, cement, textiles,
agricultural equipment, etc., etc. and is particularly well
served by means of transport and roads, highways (linking
Sorocaba to regional airports and coastal ports) and railways.
The Ferroban railroad connects the city to Sao Paulo and to
Santos, in the coast, and to Argentina and Bolivia.
Sorocaba
offers to investors and business people a Convention & Visitors
Bureau and two International Convention Centers.
Hotels
The
accommodation offered by Sorocaba is very extensive, including
top hotels of international chains as Transamerica Flat or Ibis,
as well as hotels of medium and cheap categories.
The airport
Sorocaba has its own airport, with a huge cargo terminal, just some miles
out of the city:
Sorocaba
Airport (SOD). But most of international flights arrive in Guarulhos, the international airport of Sao Paulo.
Transfers from the airport
There is a wide service of taxis and there are buses every few minutes to several destinations
in Guarulhos airport as weel as in Sorocaba Airport.
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