Is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Parana. The city has the largest population, the largest economy in the State and also in southern Brazil. According to the American magazine Readers, Curitiba is the best place to live in Brazil. Growth of the city was based on the cattle trade, being half way between cattle breeding country to the South and markets to the North. Waves of Europtan immigrants started arriving after 1850, mainly Germans, Italians, Poles and Ukrainians, contributing to the economic and cultural development of the city. Currently, only small numbers of foreigners migrate to Curitiba, and these are mainly immigrants from Middle Eastern and South American countries, but there is a substantial inward flow of Brazilians from other States of the country. Curitiba hosts the Federal University of Parana, one of the first universities in Brazil, established in Curitiba in 1913, which is the same year in which electric streetcars were first deployed. In 2010 the city was awarded with the Globe Sustainable City Award which was set to underline cities and municipalities, which excel in sustainable urban development around the world.