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Batatais

Batatais is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Batatais
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_shield: BrasaoBatatais.svg
Settlement.image_flag: BandeiraBatatais.svg
Settlement.image_skyline: Centro da cidade de Batatais visto da Rua Marechal Deodoro - panoramio.jpg
Settlement.image_map: SaoPaulo Municip Batatais.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location in São Paulo state
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Southeast
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.subdivision_name2: São Paulo
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Mesoregion
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Microregion
Settlement.subdivision_type5: Metrop. region

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History
Theories on the origin of the name
Geography
Demographics
Notable people
See also
References

Batatais is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

==History== The settlement became a town and an independent municipality on March 14, 1839, when it was separated from Franca. It became a city in 1875. Washington Luís, president of Brazil around 1929, was the city mayor in 1899.