São Sebastião
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municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil
Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Southeast
- State
- São Paulo
- Metropolitan region
- Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte
- Settled
- March 16, 1636
- Mayor
- Felipe Augusto ( PSDB )
- Municipality
- 403.336 km (155.729 sq mi)
- Metro
- 2,373 km (916 sq mi)
- Density
- 223.95/km (580.03/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Hdi 2010
- 0.772 – high
- Website
- www .saosebastiao .sp .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- sebastianense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- São Paulo
- Population
- 33890
- Area
- 399.679
- Elevation
- 6
- Shares border with
- Salesópolis
- Official website
- www.saosebastiao.sp.gov.br
- Image
- Maresias - bresil.JPG
- Dialing code
- 12
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- Commons category
- São Sebastião (São Paulo)
- Human Development Index
- 0.772
- inception
- 1636-03-16
- electorate
- 54281
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Encyclopedic overview
São Sebastião (Portuguese for Saint Sebastian) is a Brazilian municipality, located on the southeast coast of Brazil, in the state of São Paulo. The population in 2020 was 90,328, its density was 185/km and the area is 403 km. The Tropic of Capricorn lies 25 km north. The municipality existed since 1636 and formed a part of the old hereditary captaincy of Santo Amaro.
The archipelago municipality of Ilhabela is located on the east coast of the city; the largest island of the archipelago is also called São Sebastião. Between the city and the island, there is the São Sebastião channel with 30 kilometres in length, and variable width (2 km being the shortest crossing). There is an oil terminal at the channel, owned by Transpetro, a subsidiary of Petrobrás.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “São Sebastião” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.