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Boca do Lixo (, ''Garbage Mouth'') is an area in Luz, downtown
São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
, Brazil. Boca do Lixo is the popular, unofficial name given to the Santa Ifigênia area between the streets Rua do Triunfo and Rua Vitória. In the 1990s it became known as
Cracolândia Cracolândia, also known as Crackland in English, is a popular denomination for a region of the city of São Paulo, which is notorious for its high incidence of drug trafficking and drug use in public. It is located within the central region of th ...
(" Crack Land"), and was associated with
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,
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and violence. The area was characterized by its
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s and
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establishments, and was home to a flourishing cinema industry known as Cinema da Boca do Lixo, particularly in the 1970s. Today, Boca is a constantly policed area and crime rate has dramatically fallen.


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