Japanese Immigration Memorial Park in Brazil, worlds largest japanese community outside the japan

The area where the park is located was during the 1970s an important sand extraction mine, explored by the mining company Lopes,
The park project started in march 2007,succeeding in raising public and private funds for the constructions of the park. An amount of R$ 780 thousand was released by the ministry of Tourism and the city was responsible for paying for material and labor.