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Map 1 Location of selected municipalities (darker on the map) in the Curitiba Metropolitan Region,
Parana State, Brazil. Source Produced by the authors based on Nakayama (2017)
Table 2 Ranking of selected
municipalities by population
size
Municipalities
City population
1st
São José dos Pinhais
264,210
2nd
Colombo
229,872
3rd
Araucária
131,356
4th
Pinhais
125,808
5th
Campo Largo
122,443
6th
Almirante Tamandaré
111,586
7th
Piraquara
102,798
8th
Fazenda Rio Grande
90,648
9th
Lapa
47,294
10th
Campina Grande do Sul
41,447
Source The authors based on IBGE (2010)
Interviews were conducted in all selected municipalities inside the geographical
framework.