Proposed division of SP causes controversy.
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The proposal of division in three states has created a dispute between the service sector, concentrated in the metropolitan region of Belém, and agricultural, with a strength in the countryside.
The latest issue of the Journal ComCiência of Labjor (Unicamp), Geography of Change, N. 133 - 11/10/2011, presents a dossier about the Geography of Brazil.