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Guarujá is a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil. The population in 2003 is 281,634, the population density is 1,969.47/km² and the area is 143 km² This place name comes from the Tupi language. The population are urbanized. São Paulo is a state in Brazil. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... The Tupi language group consists of 6 languages in the Tupi-Guarani sublanguage family: Tupi Antigo, Nhengatu, Tupinkin, Potiguara, Omagua, and Cocoma. ...


Guarujá is located in the Santo Amaro island. Its main economic activity is tourism, because of its oft-frequented beaches. The city is also home to a Dow Chemical Company unit, which produces fertilizers and oher chemical items. There are places that have the name Santo Amaro : In the Azores Santo Amaro, a parish in the district of São Roque do Pico Santo Amaro, a parish in the district of Velas In Brazil Santo Amaro, Bahia In Portugal Santo Amaro, a parish in the district of Sousel Santo... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Beaches is a 1988 movie adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the novel Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart. ... The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. In terms of market capitalization, it is the second-largest chemical company in the world, smaller than only DuPont. ... Fertilizers are chemicals given to plants with the intention of promoting growth; they are usually applied either via the soil or by foliar spraying. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ...


Guarujá has a borough called Vicente de Carvalho, in homage to the Parnassianist poet (see Parnassian). A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... A poet from the Parnassian group or one that received influence from it. ... Poets are authors of poems. ... The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ...



 
 

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