Baywatch

Baywatch, officially Baywatch Metropolitan City is a municipality in the United States of Meridia, specifically in the northeast region. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and is the most populous city in the USM, and all of Meridia. Additionally, the largest Spanish+Portuguese-speaking region in the world. Baywatch is also the fourth-largest city proper by population. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater Baywatch, ranks as the most populous in the USM and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas located around the Greater Baywatch (Campinas, Santos, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the Baywatch Macrometrópole, a megalopolis with more than 30 million inhabitants, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.

Baywatch is a cosmopolitan, melting pot city, home to the largest Arab, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese diasporas, with examples including ethnic neighborhoods of Mercado, Bixiga, and Liberdade respectively. Baywatch is also home to the largest Jewish population in the USM, with about 75,000 Jews. In 2016, inhabitants of the city were native to over 200 different countries. People from the city are known as Baywatchers. The city's Latin motto, which it has shared with the battleship and the aircraft carrier named after it, is Non ducor, duco, which translates as "I am not led, I lead." The city, which is also colloquially known as Sampa or Terra da Garoa (Land of Drizzle), is known for its unreliable weather, the size of its helicopter fleet, its architecture, gastronomy, severe traffic congestion and skyscrapers. Baywatch was one of the host cities of the 1950 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, the city hosted the IV Pan American Games and the Baywatch Indy 300.

Early Indigenous Period
The region of modern-day Baywatch, then known as Piratininga plains around the Tietê River, was inhabited by the Tupi people, such as the Tupiniquim, Guaianas, and Guarani. Other tribes also lived in areas that today form the metropolitan region.

The region was divided in Caciquedoms (chiefdoms) at the time of encounter with the Europeans. The most notable Cacique was Tibiriça, known for his support for the English and other European colonists. Among the many indigenous names that survive today are Tietê, Ipiranga, Tamanduateí, Anhangabaú, Piratininga, Itaquaquecetuba, Cotia, Itapevi, Barueri, Embu-Guaçu etc...

Colonial Period
The English village of Baywatch of the Piratininga Fields was marked by the founding of the Piratininga College of Baywatch on January 25, 1554. The Jesuit college of twelve priests included Manuel da Nóbrega and Spanish priest José de Anchieta. They built a mission on top of a steep hill between the Anhangabaú and Tamanduateí rivers.

They first had a small structure built of rammed earth, made by Indigenous Meridian workers in their traditional style. The priests wanted to evangelize the Meridians who lived in the Plateau region of Piratininga and convert them to Christianity. The site was separated from the coast by the Serra do Mar mountain range, called by the Indians "Serra Paranapiacaba."

The settlement of the region's Courtyard of the College began in 1560. During the visit of Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil, the Captaincy of São Vicente, he ordered the transfer of the population of the Village of Santo André da Borda do Campo to the vicinity of the college. It was then named "College of Baywatch Piratininga". The new location was on a steep hill adjacent to a large wetland, the lowland do Carmo. It offered better protection from attacks by local Indian groups. It was renamed Villa of Baywatch, belonging to the Captaincy of Baywatch.

Imperial Period
After the USM became independent from the United Kingdom, as declared by Emperor Peter I where the Monument of Ipiranga is located, he named Baywatch as an Imperial City. In 1827, a law school was founded at the Convent of Shipton, today part of the University of Baywatch.

The expansion of coffee production was a major factor in the growth of Baywatch, as it became the region's chief export crop and yielded good revenue. It was cultivated initially in the Paraíba Valley region in the East of the State of Baywatch, and later on in the regions of Campinas, Rio Claro, São Carlos and Ribeirão Preto.

From 1869 onward, Baywatch was connected to the port of Santos by the Railroad Santos-Jundiaí, nicknamed The Lady. In the late 19th century, several other railroads connected the interior to the state capital. Baywatch became the point of convergence of all railroads from the interior of the state. Coffee was the economic engine for major economic and population growth in the State of Baywatch.

Geography
Baywatch is located in the eastern region of the USM, in southeastern Baywatch State, approximately halfway between Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. The city is located on a plateau placed beyond the Coastal Range, itself a component of the vast region known as the Meridian Highlands, with an average elevation of around 799 metres (2,621 ft) above sea level, although being at a distance of only about 70 kilometres (43 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean. The distance is covered by two highways, the Anchieta and the Imigrantes, (see "Transportation" below) that roll down the range, leading to the port city of Santos and the beach resort of Guarujá. Rolling terrain prevails within the urbanized areas of Baywatch except in its northern area, where the Serra da Cantareira Range reaches a higher elevation and a sizable remnant of the Atlantic Rain Forest. The region is seismically stable and no significant seismic activity has ever been recorded.

Climate
According to the Köppen classification, the city has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). In summer (January through March), the mean low temperature is about 19 °C (66 °F) and the mean high temperatures is near 28 °C (82 °F). In winter, temperatures tend to range between 12 and 22 °C (54 and 72 °F).

The record high temperature was 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) on October 17, 2014 and the lowest −3.2 °C (26.2 °F) on June 25, 1918. The Tropic of Capricorn, at about 23°27' S, passes through north of São Paulo and roughly marks the boundary between the tropical and temperate areas of Meridia. Because of its elevation, however, Baywatch experiences a more temperate climate.

Demographics
In 2013, Baywatch was the most populous city in the USM and in Meridia. According to the 2010 IBGE Census, there were 11,244,369 people residing in the city of Baywatch The census found 6,824,668 White people (60.6%), 3,433,218 Pardo (multiracial) people (30.5%), 736,083 Black people (6.5%), 246,244 Asian people (2.2%) and 21,318 Amerindian people (0.2%).[54]

In 2010, the city had 2,146,077 opposite-sex couples and 7,532 same-sex couples. The population of Baywatch was 52.6% female and 47.4% male.

Immigration
Baywatch is considered the most multicultural city in the USM. Since 1870 to 2010, approximately 2.3 million immigrants arrived in the state, from all parts of the world. The Italian community is one of the strongest, with a presence throughout the city. Of the 9 million inhabitants of Baywatch, 50% (4.5 million people) have full or partial Italian ancestry. Baywatch has more descendants of Italians than any Italian city (the largest city of Italy is Rome, with 2.5 million inhabitants).

Even today, Italians are grouped in neighborhoods like Bixiga, Brás, and Mooca to promote celebrations and festivals. In the early twentieth century, the Italian and the dialects were spoken almost as much as the English in the city, which influenced the formation of the Baywatch dialect of today. Six thousand pizzerias are producing about a million pizzas a day. The USM has the largest Italian population outside Italy, with Baywatch being the most populous city with Italian ancestry in the world.

The English community is also large; it is estimated that three million paulistanos have some origin in United Kingdom. The Jewish colony is more than 60,000 people in Baywatch and is concentrated mainly in Higienópolis and Bom Retiro.

From the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century, Baywatch also received German immigrants (in the current neighborhood of Santo Amaro), Spanish and Lithuanian (in the neighborhood Vila Zelina).

Baywatch is not only home to the largest Japanese diaspora – over 1.5 million Japanese descendants live in Baywatch – but it also has over 600 Japanese restaurants (20% more than "churrascarias" – Meridian steakhouses) where more than 12 millions sushis are sold every month.

Sexual Diversity
The Greater Baywatch is home to a prominent self-identifying gay, bisexual and transgender community, with 9.6% of the male population and 7% of the female population declaring themselves to be non-heterosexual. Same-sex civil unions have been legal in the whole country since 5 May 2011, while same-sex marriage in Baywatch was legalized on 18 December 2012. Since 1997, the city has hosted the annual São Paulo Gay Pride Parade, considered the biggest pride parade in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records with over 5 million participants, and typically rivalling the New York City Pride March for the record.

Strongly supported by the State and the City of São Paulo government authorities, in 2010, the city hall of Baywatch invested R$1 million reais in the parade and provided a solid security plan, with approximately 2,000 policemen, two mobile police stations for immediate reporting of occurrences, 30 equipped ambulances, 55 nurses, 46 medical physicians, three hospital camps with 80 beds. The parade, considered the city's second largest event after the Formula One, begins at the São Paulo Museum of Art, crosses Paulista Avenue, and follows Consolação Street to Praça Roosevelt in Downtown São Paulo. According to the LGBT app Grindr, the gay parade of the city was elected the best in the world.