São Paulo city guide — sources and licenses
Prepared October 6, 2026.

Guide text
Adapted and rewritten from Wikivoyage contributors' São Paulo guides.
Selection, descriptions, priorities, suggested outings and learning questions
have been modified for Worldly. The adapted guide text is available under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Source articles and contributor histories:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=São_Paulo&action=history
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo/Downtown
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=São_Paulo/Downtown&action=history
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo/Paulista
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=São_Paulo/Paulista&action=history
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo/West_Side
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=São_Paulo/West_Side&action=history
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo/South_Central
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=São_Paulo/South_Central&action=history
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo/Southeast
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=São_Paulo/Southeast&action=history

Revisions consulted, in that order:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?oldid=5356971
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?oldid=5371522
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?oldid=5371008
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?oldid=5375658
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?oldid=5377464
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?oldid=5356979

Additional references and current visitor information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_S%C3%A3o_Paulo
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_São_Paulo&action=history
https://masp.org.br/en
https://assets.masp.org.br/pdf/FOLDER_MASP-Bem-vindo_EN.pdf
https://pinacoteca.org.br/
https://pinacoteca.org.br/pina/o-museu/edificio-pina-contemporanea/
https://www.sescsp.org.br/unidades/pompeia/
https://museuafrobrasil.org.br/sobre/
https://museudofutebol.org.br/
https://museudoipiranga.org.br/
https://www.metro.sp.gov.br/sua-viagem/
https://www.gru.com.br/en
https://prefeitura.sp.gov.br/web/se/w/nossase/belavista
https://prefeitura.sp.gov.br/web/cultura/w/novo-achado-arqueol%C3%B3gico-na-capela-dos-aflitos-refor%C3%A7a-mem%C3%B3ria-negra-da-liberdade

Museum programs, ticket arrangements, rail services and airport transfers can
change. The guide links to operators instead of repeating community listings'
older fares or presenting stations under construction as operating services.
The three-outing structure is Worldly's editorial suggestion, not a fixed tour.

District boundaries
Official GeoSampa municipal district layer, Prefeitura do Município de São
Paulo / Secretaria Municipal de Urbanismo e Licenciamento (SMUL), accessed
October 6, 2026. Catalog and license:
https://dadosabertos.urbis.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/dataset/distritos-municipais
https://novogeosampa.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

WFS source:
https://wfs.geosampa.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/geoserver/geoportal/wfs
Layer: geoportal:distrito_municipal
Request: GetFeature, WFS 1.0.0, application/json, EPSG:4326
Filter: sg_distrito_municipal IN
('SEE','REP','BVI','LIB','BRE','SCE','CON','CMB','JDP','PIN','API','PRD',
 'BFU','VMN','MOE','IBI','BUT','IPI','LAP')

Changes: selected nineteen of the municipality's 96 official districts;
simplified outlines with a tolerance of 0.00002 degrees (approximately two
meters); rounded WGS84 coordinates to six decimal places; replaced properties
with the district code and name. Adapted boundaries are CC BY-SA 4.0.
These are official districts, not neighborhood boundaries. Vila Madalena is
within Pinheiros and Bixiga is within Bela Vista. The map is a selected part
of the municipality and does not portray all of metropolitan São Paulo.
Rebuild with scripts/build-sao-paulo-map.mjs.

Sight pins
Coordinates follow the cited Wikivoyage district listings. Liberdade's pin
marks the listed shopping-street area rather than an entire neighborhood.
Sesc Pompeia's point follows Wikidata Q645190:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q645190
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q645190&action=history
District membership was checked against the official GeoSampa polygons:
MASP is in Bela Vista, across Avenida Paulista from Jardim Paulista;
Sesc Pompeia's mapped point is in Perdizes, within the Lapa subprefecture.

Map imagery
Satellite imagery and tiles: MapTiler. Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors.
The map previews use the shared Hong Kong Mercator tile framing, sequential
highlights, hover replay and animated sight pins. On-map attribution links
travel with the imagery.

Photos
Thirteen distinct Wikimedia Commons photographs. Each photo links to its
original file page with the creator and license beside it. The exact sources
and credits are saved in src/lib/cities/sao-paulo-photos.json. Photo licenses
apply separately from the guide text and boundary adaptations.