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Settlement functions
Mining town
Definition
A mining town, mining community, or mining camp is a community that houses miners created around a mine
Example in Brazil
Paracatu,Minas gerais 
Example overseas
Butte Montana, Virginia City, Nevada, Deadwood, South Dakota, Leadville, Colorado, Central City, Colorado, Bisbee, Arizona, Jerome, Arizona
Cultural/religious town
Cultural tows are tows that are dedicated to be recognized by arts, monuments etc. as a central feature to their cultural identity.
Religious cities are those that stand out for attracting believers from different religions, in this sense we have Trindade (Brazil).
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Manufacturing town
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Example in Brazil
Paraná, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Espírito Santo, São Paulo
Example overseas
Merced, Lima, Greeley, Spartanburg
Residential town
Definition
a residential town is a land used in which housing predominates instead of industrial and comercial areas.
Example in Brazil
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Belo Horizone, Minas Gerais
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Tourist resort
A resort is a commercial establishment that tries to give a tourist everything they want while staying on the premises of the resort.
Kenoa Resort
An example of an oversea hotel, would be the Kupu Kupu, a resort hotel in Thailand.
Route center town
Definition
Is a settlement with a public transport route that links one suburb in a settlement to another, mostly used to trade goods.
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Villacastin, Spain. It connects 2 cities that arent big in size and population. It connects Adanero and Vicolozano. If the route is followed it eventually rolls into Madrid where most of the routes are connected
Commercial town
a commercial town is a piece of land where its main function and primary land use is commercial activities such as shopping, movie theatres, malls, different stores and so on. as opposed to a more residential neighbourhood where people would live.
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New York is another big commercial city outside of Brazil. where multiple different brands are based in and where we can find a variety of different stores.
Port town
Defnition
A settlement where its function is to import and export. A place where goods can be imported and exported.
There are 175 port structures in Brazil, consisting of about 32 public ports and 143 private ports. Though the best city to import and export things in Brazil Is Santos, mainly because of how many ports there is
Place where ships load or unload, the best ports around the world Sweden, Germany, France, Hong Kong.
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You can see in the picture of the map that São Paulo has a lot of yellow lines (Which represent main routes) connected to it.
São Paulo is without a doubt the biggest commercial town in Brazil. with its large population and big buildings filled with different stores and different entertainment sources.
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