Avanhandava is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its latitude is 21.45/21°27'39 S and 49.95/49°56'59 W. The population in 2004 is 9,268 and the area is 341.36 km² The elevation is 428 m.
The first presence of the Brazilian State in the region was, in the end of century XIX, a military colony in to the Jump to the Avanhandava, that was nicknamed Banishment.
The Patrimony appeared in donated lands, in 1906, for the Farmer Eduardo Jose de Castilho, to the priests Capuchinhos.
Immediately afterwards, in 2 of December of 1908, it arrived at the new town, the Railroad the Northwest of Brazil that stimulated the encraising of the region.
It is cut by two great waterfalls: jump of Avanhandava, with 19m of fall, in the Km 210 and the jump of Itapura, close the outlet and drowned by the barragem of Jupiá, in the river Paraná.
The medium declividade of the space is of 42cm/Km, and to the jusante of the jump Avanhandava lowers the less than 23cm/Km.
The river Tietê is now navigable in the space of the immobility of the barragem of Jupiá (40Km) and in the space among the barragem of New Avanhandava and of the immobility of the barragem of Pretty Barra, already forming a continuous pull of 443Km of extension in use.
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