English: This is a nice example of how some things are better in pictures than they are in reality.

This bucolic scenery is right besides the "Marginal Tietê", the main arterial road of Sao Paulo, built on the margins of Tietê River, one of the most polluted rivers in the world when within the city.

This creek in the picture is a few meters away from where it flows into the Tietê, and it is called "Corrego da Luz", named after its source location, the Luz district.

The creek is less than 2 miles long, but unfortunately, this is long enough for the people here and the local water authority to basically use it as an open sewage.

Fortunately, at least, pictures have no smell...