Araçatuba
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cidade do Boi Gordo, Capital do Boi Gordo, ATA, Araçatexas
Araçatuba is a city located in the northwest of São Paulo state, Brazil. The city has 207,775 inhabitants (IBGE/2024) and spans . The city name comes from the Tupi language and means "abundance of araçá" (a fruit, Psidium cattleianum). Araçatuba is located from São Paulo.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Araçatuba
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Montagem ata 2.jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira do Araçatuba.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Brasao prefeituraAraçatuba.png
- Settlement.image_map
- SaoPaulo Municip Aracatuba.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Araçatuba
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Brazil
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southeast
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Dilador Borges (PSDB)
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1908
via Wikipedia infobox
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Economy
- Microregion of Araçatuba
- Media
- Transportation
- Events
- Sport
- Climate
- Photo gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Araçatuba is a city located in the northwest of São Paulo state, Brazil. The city has 207,775 inhabitants (IBGE/2024) and spans . The city name comes from the Tupi language and means "abundance of araçá" (a fruit, Psidium cattleianum). Araçatuba is located from São Paulo.
Its origins date back to the coffee boom and, at the turn of the century, its economy was characterized by the growth of sugarcane plantations. This scenario also includes livestock farming, an activity that made it known in the country as the Capital of Fat Cattle due to the negotiations of the arroba of cattle held in Praça Rui Barbosa, in addition to the inclusion of other animal breeding activities such as sheep farming. With a diversified economy, the service sector is the predominant one in the city. Araçatuba is also characterized by being a university hub in the northwest region of the state of São Paulo. It is served by the Brazil-Bolivia Gas Pipeline and the Tietê-Paraná waterway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Araçatuba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (18)
On the map
3 mapped locations