Granja Viana

Officially, the district is located in the east side of the city, but some portions of southern Carapicuíba, northern Embu das Artes and eastern Jandira are often referred to as Granja Viana as well.

In Cotia itself, it occupies an area of 50 km2, with a population of 35,000(2014),[1] and it possesses 70% of the city's industry, including automotive parts, food & beverage, metallurgy, graphic, informatics, serigraphy, chemicals, pottery, horticulture, woods, plastics, etc.

He founded the Lar Rotary School (which would become the Colégio Rio Branco in 1982) and he helped to build the Santo Antônio Church (to which his wife Vanetty Vianna was devoted).

[8] The name "Granja" (which means a place were han and chicken are bred) came after Niso acquired more lands, imported cattle from foreign countries and started to dedicate himself to the production of milk and cheese.

[9] Geographer Aziz Ab'Saber, who lived in the neighborhood,[10] criticized in 1991 the way it developed:[11] "'[...] the simple way that the ancient people of the Peabiru had with Nature and how the Portuguese conquerors managed to capt, besides the bloody conquer..., this simplicity on the way the forest, the water and the animals are treated, of the luck that in our region, both in Caucaia do Alto and in Granja Vianna, still today we can see this way the people handle the opening of spaces for living, and the bad way public and private corruption is handled that rips and destroys the geological brindle to create neighborhoods, to densify people and enterprises in territories that don't stand it due to the lack of natural structure.