Registro-SP, "THE CAPITAL OF TEA"

Registro is a municipality Brazilian state of Sao Paulo . It is located in the middle region of the South Coast Paulista, Sao Paulo in the portion of the Ribeira Valley and is accessed through the Régis Bittencourt Highway (BR-116). It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Juquiá , south down Jacupiranga and Pariquera-Acu , to the east by Iguape and west of Eldorado and Sete Barras .

Registro has about 80 neighborhoods spread in 716, 331 square kilometers with about 55 000 inhabitants. The cultural and economic and population density mean that registration is known as "Capital of the Ribeira Valley," or also as "Tea Capital", in allusion to one of the main products exported by the municipality, especially in the mid-1990s .

The city is officially (according to Decree No. 50652 of March 30, 2006) Marco Japanese Colonization of the State of São Paulo because it would have been the first town to receive Japanese immigrants interested in investing in its own production in the State of Sao Paulo. The Joint Iguape (colonies of registry, or Sete Barras and Katsura Giporuva) was chronologically the first large colony formed by the Japanese in Brazil, and also the first among the colonies founded by private capital Nipponese.

Located in the cultural city of Japanese immigration to be preserved by the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (Iphan): Headquarters Kaigai Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, old tea factories and the homes of early settlers Japanese, the Episcopal Church and St. Francis Xavier and the first seedlings of the variety of tea Assam. At various points in the city of registration are installed sculptures by the artist Yutaka Toyota made with material from old tea factories and warehouses and rice processing mill.