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Boca do Lixo
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Boca do Lixo
Boca do Lixo (, Garbage Mouth) is the popular name given to Santa Efigênia area between the streets Rua do Triunfo and Rua Vitória, in Luz neighborhood located in downtown of São Paulo. Boca was usually characterized by its night clubs and sexual services establishments. The area was also home to a flourishing cinema industry known as Mouth of Garbage Cinema, especially in the 1970s. It became to be known as Cracolândia ("Crack Land") in the 1990s, a surrounding identified with drugs, organised crime and violence. Today, Boca is a constantly policed area and crime rate has dramatically fallen.
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Boca do lixo
A Boca do Lixo ou "Cracolândia" é uma região da área central da cidade de São Paulo marcada pelo meretrício e atualmente pela violência. Durante o final da década de 1960, com o surgimento do chamado cinema marginal, houve um crescente desenvolvimento da atividade cinematográfica nesta região da cidade. Diversas produtoras e alguns cinemas lá surgiram nesta época.
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