Atibaia is a Brazilian city located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. São Paulo is a state in Brazil. ...

Its strawberry crops are one of the most well-known characteristics of the place. These crops are cultivated mainly by Japanese descendants, since the city was a common Japanese immigrant center. Species see text The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the Family Rosaceae (Rose Family), and the fruit of these plants. ...

Geography

Atibaia is located 65km from the capital of the state São Paulo. It is also located 65km from Campinas and 80km from São José dos Campos, two major urban centres of the region. Sao Paulo and São Paulo (city) redirect here. ... Campinas is a city and county (município) located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. ... São José dos Campos is one of the major cities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, sitting in the Vale do Paraíba, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. ...

Atibaia, general view from Pedra Grande

The city is located on a strategic highway crossing: the junction of Rodovia D. Pedro I and Rodovia Fernão Dias, having direct access to important cities, such as São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Campinas and Jacareí. Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 317 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 317 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Sao Paulo and São Paulo (city) redirect here. ... Belo Horizonte (a Portuguese name meaning beautiful horizon) is among the most important cities in Brazil. ... Campinas is a city and county (município) located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. ... Jacareí is a city of approximately 200,000 inhabitants in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. ...

Atibaia has 491 square kilometers of area, 40% of this area is urbanized. The average altitude is 800 meters. Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum, called zero level. ...

Demographics

According to the census of 1996, executed by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Atibaia has approximately 121,000 inhabitants. However, 30,000 of these are people who own lands in the city, cottages and summer houses, but don't have fixed residence (floating population). IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica), is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil. ...

There is not a great industrial activity in Atibaia, and so there is a huge labour offer. According to the IBGE census, 65% of the population (95,342 inhabitants) is part of the economical active age group. Labour (or labor) can mean any one of the following things: Physical or mental work; exertion. ... IBGE, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica), is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil. ...

History of Atibaia

In 1665, a man called Jerônimo de Camargo and his expedition found a hill near a river named Tubaia (later called Atibaia River). Jerônimo de Camargo was a "bandeirante explorer". Their main objective was to search the interior lands of Brazil for rich mineral resources, such as gold, silver and emeralds. The richest lands, in matter of minerals, were the lands of which is now called state of Minas Gerais. General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2. ... For other things of this name, see Emerald (disambiguation). ... Minas Gerais is one of the states of Brazil, the second most populous in the federation. ...

Jerônimo de Camargo, once he saw the river Tubaia, ordered his men to buld a chapel there. The area was already occupied by a priest called Mateus Nunes da Siqueira, that had contact with native indians, from the tribe of Guarulhos.

Jerônimo then built a farm at that place, around the month June of 1665. Near this farm, the priest Mateus, with the help of the natives, built a village. The village was called Atibaia.

Atibaia was a very important settlement at that time, because it was in the way of the expeditions (Bandeiras) that were going to Minas Gerais, in the north. São Paulo, probably the second most important city of Brazil at that time, was in the south of Atibaia, and the mining region was in the north, locating Atibaia in the middle way. Minas Gerais is one of the states of Brazil, the second most populous in the federation. ...

As time passed, Atibaia became very important. Even the king of Portugal, D. João VI, visited the small town of Atibaia and slept here for a night time. Many famous artists went to Atibaia, such as Benedito Calixto, a famous painter, whose 2 paintings are still there in the city. Alberto Santos-Dumont, a famous brazilian aviation pioneer, also visited Atibaia. Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat. ...

In April of 1864, the town Atibaia was officially called a city, due to the increased size of the population.

Nowadays there's an important avenue that cross the city named Jerônimo de Camargo, named after the famous founder of Atibaia.

Name Origin

The name is derivated from an indigenous language called Tupi, and has a meaning of "healthy water river". Its name has changed through the time: since from the primitive Tupi word Tybaia, to Thibaia, Atubaia, Thibaya, and finally the actual name: Atibaia. Tupi is the name of a language family that was spoken along the Brazilian coast at the time of its discovery. ...

Cultural / Touristic Information

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