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Ourinhos has characteristics that are part of several municipalities in the “pioneer zone”. This economic phase began with the advance of coffee to the new lands of felled forests, in the region on the banks of the Paranapanema River, little known between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. With the presence of squatters, foreigners and migrants, a rapid occupation of the land was achieved, with the predominance of monoculture (coffee and cotton), integrating the middle Paranapanema into the economic life of the State of São Paulo.