Batatais

Batatais is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Batatais
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_shield: BrasaoBatatais.svg
Settlement.image_flag: BandeiraBatatais.svg
Settlement.image_skyline: Centro da cidade de Batatais visto da Rua Marechal Deodoro - panoramio.jpg
Settlement.image_map: SaoPaulo Municip Batatais.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location in São Paulo state
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Southeast
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.subdivision_name2: São Paulo
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Mesoregion
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Microregion
Settlement.subdivision_type5: Metrop. region

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: batataense
Population: 56476
Area: 850.718
Elevation: 862
Official website: www.batatais.sp.gov.br
Image: Igreja do Bom Jesus da Cana Verde em Batatais 01.jpg
Dialing code: 16

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Commons category: Batatais
electorate: 35978
Human Development Index: 0.761
inception: 1839-01-01

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History
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Geography
Demographics
Notable people
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Batatais is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.

==History== The settlement became a town and an independent municipality on March 14, 1839, when it was separated from Franca. It became a city in 1875. Washington Luís, president of Brazil around 1929, was the city mayor in 1899.