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Pindamonhangaba
Sign in to savePindamonhangaba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is accessible by the Via Dutra (BR-116 – SP-60 highway) at the 99th kilometer. This place name comes from the Old Tupi language meaning "where hooks are made" or, according to a different interpretation, "where the river bends".
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pindamonhangaba
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- Município de PindamonhangabaMunicipality of Pindamonhangaba
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- Pindamonhangaba SP-Brazil City of Aluminum Recycling.JPG
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- Symbol of aluminum recycling in Pindamonhangaba, which is the largest center for recycling aluminum cans in Latin America.
- Settlement.nickname
- Princesa do Norte (Princess of the North)
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira Pindamonhangaba SaoPaulo Brasil.svg
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- Brasão Pindamonhangaba.png
- Settlement.image_map
- SaoPaulo Municip Pindamonhangaba.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in the state of São Paulo
- Settlement.motto
- Pro Patria Semper(Latin)(Pro Country Always)
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- Brazil
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- 250
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- Location in Brazil
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- Country
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- Region
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- State
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Município de Pindamonhangaba
- Demonym
- pindamonhangabense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- São Paulo
- Population
- 102063
- Area
- 729.9
- Elevation
- 540
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- Taubaté
- Official website
- www.pindamonhangaba.sp.gov.br
- Image
- Pindamonhangaba SP-Brazil City of Aluminum Recycling.JPG
- Dialing code
- 12
- Motto
- Pro Patria Semper
- Patron saint
- Our Lady of the Good Event
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- Commons category
- Pindamonhangaba
- topic's main category
- Category:Pindamonhangaba
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Pindamonhangaba
- inception
- 1705-07-10
- nickname
- Pinda
- electorate
- 104799
- postal code
- 12400-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.773
- Köppen climate classification
- humid subtropical climate
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Pindamonhangaba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is accessible by the Via Dutra (BR-116 – SP-60 highway) at the 99th kilometer. This place name comes from the Old Tupi language meaning "where hooks are made" or, according to a different interpretation, "where the river bends".
== Geography == Estimated population (2020): 170,132 inhabitants Total area: Density (estimated 2020): 232.99 hab/km2 (608/sq mi) Population (Census 2010): inhabitants Density (Census 2010): 201.39/km2 (531/sq mi) Source: IBGE Altitude: 540 meters Humid subtropical climate (Cwa) Average annual temperature:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pindamonhangaba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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