Rio Claro
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- State
- São Paulo
- Mayor
- Gustavo Perissinoto ( PSD )
- Total
- 498.422 km (192.442 sq mi)
- Estimate 2025
- 210,323
- Density
- 37,369/km (96,790/sq mi)
- Hdi 2010
- 0.803 – very high
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- ribeirão-pretano
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- São Paulo
- Population
- 138243
- Area
- 498.422
- Elevation
- 617
- Shares border with
- Santa Gertrudes
- Official website
- www.rioclaro.sp.gov.br
- Image
- Skyline de Rio Claro (cropped).jpg
- Dialing code
- 19
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- Commons category
- Rio Claro (São Paulo)
- topic's main category
- Category:Rio Claro, São Paulo
- category for people born here
- Q27670054
- Human Development Index
- 0.803
- postal code
- 13500-001 a 13509-999
- inception
- 1827-01-01
- different from
- Rio Claro
- electorate
- 141281
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Encyclopedic overview
Rio Claro is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The elevation is 613 m. It was incorporated as the village of São João Batista do Ribeirão Claro in 1827, and this incorporation is celebrated every year on June 24 as a municipal holiday.
The name was changed later to Rio Claro. Starting in the 19th century, Rio Claro attracted large numbers of immigrants from European countries, especially from Germany, Switzerland and Italy, but also from Spain, Portugal, some Eastern European countries, and a substantial community of Christian Arabs from the then Ottoman Empire (mostly Syrian and Lebanese). Japanese immigrants arrived later. There is also a large population of Afro-Brazilians. Rio Claro used to play a very important role in the railway system of São Paulo state.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rio Claro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.