Editing Paraty (section)

=== Economic revival ===
The city's economic activity revived as a port for a new boom, the coffee trade of the [[Paraiba do Sul River]] Valley in the early 19th century, until a railway along the valley created cheaper transport to the port of Rio de Janeiro. 
Since then, Paraty has been out of the mainstream, which is why it did not change for centuries, until a paved road was built from Rio de Janeiro to [[Santos (São Paulo)|Santos]], near São Paulo, in the 1970s. The city then began a new cycle of activity, which transformed a small, almost abandoned town living on very limited economic activity, mainly [[fishing]] and [[agriculture]] ([[banana]]s, [[manioc]], [[sugarcane]]) into a tourism destination. 

As of 2019, the historic town of Paraty has been listed as [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]] for its mixed cultural-natural landscape, encompassing its coastal historic center and nine natural areas.