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Guaratinguetá
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Guaratinguetá is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The population is 122,505 (2020 est.) in an area of 752.64 km2. It is located in the region of Vale do Paraíba; prominent individuals from the area include Saint Frei Galvão, Brazilian President Rodrigues Alves and the cardiologist Dr Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini. The name of the city derives from the words in the Tupi language: gûyra (heron), tinga (white) and etá (many), resulting in ''Gûyrating'etá'' (meeting of white herons).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Guaratinguetá
- Settlement.official_name
- Municipality of Guaratinguetá
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- Municipality
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- SaoPaulo Municip Guaratingueta.svg
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- Brazil
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- 300px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Guaratinguetá in São Paulo state
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- Bandeira Guaratingueta SaoPaulo Brasil 2.svg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasaoguara.jpg
- Settlement.motto
- Paulistarum arx (Latin)
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southeast Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
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- Metropolitan Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- June 13, 1630
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Município da Estância Turística de Guaratinguetá
- Demonym
- guaratinguetaense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- São Paulo
- Population
- 102072
- Area
- 751.443
- Elevation
- 530
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- Potim
- Official website
- www.guaratingueta.sp.gov.br
- Image
- Guaratingueta - vista aerea.jpg
- Dialing code
- 12
- Motto
- Pavlistarvm arx
- Patron saint
- Anthony of Padua
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- Human Development Index
- 0.798
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Guaratinguetá
- topic's main category
- Category:Guaratinguetá
- Commons category
- Guaratinguetá
- inception
- 1630-06-13
- nickname
- Município das Garças Brancas
- postal code
- 12500-000
- Gini coefficient
- 0.420
- electorate
- 83592
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Guaratinguetá is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The population is 122,505 (2020 est.) in an area of 752.64 km2. It is located in the region of Vale do Paraíba; prominent individuals from the area include Saint Frei Galvão, Brazilian President Rodrigues Alves and the cardiologist Dr Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini. The name of the city derives from the words in the Tupi language: gûyra (heron), tinga (white) and etá (many), resulting in ''Gûyrating'etá (meeting of white herons).
The municipality contains part of the Mananciais do Rio Paraíba do Sul Environmental Protection Area, created in 1982 to protect the sources of the Paraíba do Sul river.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guaratinguetá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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