Plaza
Praça Pôr do Sol
Sloped hilltop lawn granting an unbroken horizon view over a river valley reshaped by engineers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Praça Pôr do Sol in São Paulo follows the Pinheiros River curling through the valley below and a 1925 scheme by the Light and Power company to make it run backward, uphill into a mountain reservoir, instead of draining to the sea. American engineer Asa Billings built pumping stations at two spots nicknamed Traição and Pedreira, betrayal and quarry, before a revolution, floods, and money trouble stalled the whole project for years.
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