at a glance

ample urbanization efforts only arrived to the campo grande neighborhood in the 20th century - the huge leap in the technology of mass transportations which came with the turn of the century provided the necessary impulse to bring more people to the then remote regions of rio de janeiro - the west zone especial suffered with the issue and was greatly benefited by the changing reality.

this development also included the expansion of existing roads or the opening of new ones. the posse road has thus become one of the main venues in the region, placed south of important brazil avenue and north of small ridge made by the santíssimo, paineiras and posse hills - it ends in the west shopping, a large mall which also helped the growth of the local economy and population in more recent years.