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Itapevi
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Itapevi
Total population
232,297
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City facts
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Overview
Itapevi is a municipality in the western area of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, in the state of São Paulo, in the Southeast Region of Brazil. Originally a village of Cotia, it developed following the arrival of the Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana in the 19th century and became an emancipated municipality in 1959 after a plebiscite. It occupies an area of 82.658 km², and its population in the 2022 Census was 232,297 inhabitants. It is located 35 kilometers from the state capital, São Paulo. It is also located 1,017 km from the federal capital, Brasília.
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History
On July 10, 1875, the train station of Cotia (Sorocabana) was inaugurated, around which formed the core of Itapevi. In 1895, the Italian Giulio Michaeli opened a quarry for the production of paving stones, attracting families of Italian immigrants, such as Belli, Michelotti and Silicani. In 1912, Joaquim Nunes Filho (Nho Quim), from Cotia city, purchased the Sítio Itapevy, with 152 bushels. This place covering all the current city center. Nunes became a local political boss, for his ties to the former PRP (Partido Republicano Paulista). He managed the elevation of the village to district Cotia on October 12, 1920. Nunes has brought electricity in 1929 and the installation of the first telephone in 1930. Nevertheless, the reference of the place was still under the name of Cotia train station, removing the possibility of identifying own the place. In 1940, he arrived in Itapevi Carlos de Castro, businessman. Knowing that the Nunes family had pretensions to sell the land that belonged to Joaquim Nunes (who died in 1941), he acquired vast tract of land, giving rise to the allotment of Parque Suburbano and Jardim Bela Vista. It was from there that accelerated the process of urbanization of the place. At the time, the train station was still called Cotia and the headquarters of the future city was known as Vila Cotia. With this, they created enormous confusion up to the postal and telegraph service in the district. In 1945, Carlos de Castro got with then Minister João Alberto that the station had its name changed to Itapevi. The people celebrated this decree. On May 10, 1952, Carlos de Castro met with three other residents of the district: Nicolau Leonardo, Raul Leonardo and Ezequiel Dias Siqueira. Together, they drafted a petition to the Assembléia Legislativa do…
Geography
The municipality is located at coordinates 23°32'56" S, 46°56'03" W. The total area of the municipality is 82,658 km², ranking 600th in the list of the largest cities in the state of São Paulo. Of the entire area of the municipality, 37,498 km² are urban areas, ranking 266th on the list of the largest in Brazil. It is limited to the municipality of Santana de Parnaíba to the north and northwest, Barueri to the northeast, Jandira to the east, Cotia to the south and southeast, Vargem Grande Paulista to the southwest and São Roque to the west. Itapevi is under the control of the Atlantic Plateau, where we can see the following types of relief: floodplains, alluvial plains, hills and mountains. Serra do Itaqui extends along the border with the municipality of Santana de Parnaíba, where the Aldeia da Serra region is located. The city's ground zero is located 35 kilometers west of the capital of São Paulo, and the current urban center is located in the floodplain of the Barueri-Mirim river, a tributary of the Tietê River. Itapevi climate is subtropical, temperate, warm the coldest month being July and warmest in February. Rainfall is abundant, amounting to an annual average of 1,324 mm. According to Köppen, Itapevi can be classified as a humid subtropical climate "Cfa". The climate table below shows the monthly and annual mean temperatures and rainfall for the city of Itapevi:
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Nearby places in São Paulo
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- Embu das Artes8.6 mi away · pop. 250,691
- Mailasqui9.9 mi away
- Cajamar13.8 mi away · pop. 92,689
- Canguera15.1 mi away
- Alumínio20.6 mi away · pop. 17,301
- Embu-Guaçu20.9 mi away · pop. 66,970
- São Lourenço da Serra21.1 mi away · pop. 16,067
- Paiol do Meio23.3 mi away
- Várzea Paulista24.3 mi away · pop. 115,771
- Cipó-Guaçu24.4 mi away
- Pirapitingui27 mi away
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 3522505
- UF
- SP
- Mesorregião
- Metropolitana de São Paulo
- Microrregião
- Osasco
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • IBGE — Brazilian national statistics, via servicodados.ibge.gov.br (official municipal code, UF, mesorregião, microrregião, region)
- • IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics — servicodados.ibge.gov.br