Q467421

Also known as Americana, São Paulo

municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

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Q467421 is a municipality (city) located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. While specific details about what makes it notable aren't provided here, municipalities in São Paulo are important as local administrative divisions that serve as centers of community life, governance, and economic activity in Brazil's most populous state.

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Demonym: americanense
Population: 153840
Area: 133.630
Elevation: 569
Official website: www.americana.sp.gov.br
Image: Vista aérea de Americana.jpg
Dialing code: 19

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Commons category: Americana (São Paulo)
Commons gallery: Americana, São Paulo
postal code: 13465-000 a 13479-999
Human Development Index: 0.811
inception: 1875-00-00
electorate: 176837
P12749: minaret

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Americana ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ameɾiˈkɐnɐ]) is a municipality (município) located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The population is 237,240 (2022 Census) in an area of 133.91 km (51.70 sq mi). The original settlement developed around the local railway station, founded in 1875, and the development of a cotton weaving factory in a nearby farm.

After 1866, thousands of former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers from the American Civil War settled in the region. Following the Civil War, slavery was abolished in the United States. In Brazil, however, slavery was legal until 1888, making it a particularly attractive location to the defeated Confederates, among whom was a former member of the Alabama State Senate, William Hutchinson Norris.