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Araraquara
Sign in to saveAraraquara ( ) is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 250,314 (2022 est.) in an area of . It is also known as "the abode of the sun," because of its impressive sunset and because of its hot weather, especially in summer. The city was founded in 1817.
Key facts
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- Municipality of Araraquara
- Settlement.name
- Araraquara
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- BrasaoAraraquara.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- BandeiraAraraquara.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- SaoPaulo Municip Araraquara.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in São Paulo
- Settlement.motto
- Altior altissimo semper (Latin)Always louder
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- Country
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southeast
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- State
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- Mesoregion
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- Microregion
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- Metrop. region
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- PL
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- araraquarense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- São Paulo
- Population
- 166731
- Area
- 1003.625
- Elevation
- 664
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- Santa Lúcia
- Official website
- www.araraquara.sp.gov.br
- Image
- Vista de Araraquara.JPG
- Dialing code
- 16
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- topic's main category
- Category:Araraquara
- Commons category
- Araraquara
- Human Development Index
- 0.815
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Araraquara
- category for people born here
- Q9228477
- electorate
- 154171
- inception
- 1817-01-01
- owner of
- Estádio Fonte Luminosa
- P8168
- Moiry Glacier
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Encyclopedic overview
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Araraquara ( ) is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 250,314 (2022 est.) in an area of . It is also known as "the abode of the sun," because of its impressive sunset and because of its hot weather, especially in summer. The city was founded in 1817.
==History== ===Etymology=== There are two possible origins for the name of the city, one that links it to the Tupi-Guarani language of the region's indigenous inhabitants, and another that relates it to the Língua Geral of São Paulo. The two versions come from similar expressions, "arará kûara" and "arara kûara", which mean "lair of the macaws."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Araraquara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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