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Pederneiras is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 47,111 (2020 est.) in an area of . The elevation is 475 m above sea level.

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Pederneiras
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Municipality
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Brazil
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Brazil
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Southeast
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São Paulo
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Wikidata facts

Official name
Pederneiras
Demonym
pederneirense
Country
Brazil
Located in
São Paulo
Population
32021
Area
729.179
Elevation
475
Shares border with
Macatuba
Image
Pederneiras.jpg
Dialing code
14
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Commons category
Pederneiras
Human Development Index
0.739
postal code
17280-000
native label
Pederneiras
inception
1891-00-00
electorate
29718
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Pederneiras is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 47,111 (2020 est.) in an area of . The elevation is 475 m above sea level.

== History == Starting from 1842, small villages were established in the area of the Tietê River. In 1848 Manoel dos Santos Simões and his two sons, Manuel Leonel dos Santos and João Leonel dos Santos, established a farm in the parish of Botucatu. They named the farm Pederneiras after the large amount of flint stone in the area. In 1865, the settlement became part of the municipality of Lençóis Paulista. Four years later it became a parish with the name São Sebastião de Alegria. Coffee plantations led to growth of the settlement, and in 1891 it became a separate municipality. In 1895, the town's name was changed back into "Pederneiras".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pederneiras” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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