Potim

Potim 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 25,130 (2020 est.) in an area of . The elevation is 535 m.

== History == The settlement developed slowly. It became a fishing and rural workers' village. At the time of Brazil's independence, the neighborhood was the largest producer of cassava in Guaratinguetá. During this period, in addition to coffee, sugar, brown sugar, corn, beans and the famous cassava flour were also produced. In 1900, the bridge connecting Potim to Aparecida was inaugurated, built with wood from the old Pedregulho bridge in Guaratinguetá, which had been replaced by a metal bridge in the previous century. The bridge was built and owned by Francisco José de Castro and cost around one thousand contos de réis, which after a while was swept away by the current of the Paraíba do Sul River and a ferry was introduced to cross the river in 1914. It was only in 1966 that the then State Governor, Ademar de Barros Filho, inaugurated a reinforced concrete bridge, which still stands today, although it has traffic restrictions. Later, the new reinforced concrete bridge was inaugurated by the State Governor Eng. Mário Covas, parallel to the previous one, 300 meters downstream, but more modern and named "Ministro Roberto Cardoso Alves", connecting Potim to the city of Aparecida, the main access point, the gateway to the city since there is no direct entrance to the municipality via a highway.