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Sorocaba
Municipality
Flag of Sorocaba
Flag
Coat of arms of Sorocaba
Coat of arms
Motto: 
Pro una libera Patria pugnavi
Location in São Paulo state
Location in São Paulo state
Country Brazil
RegionSoutheast Brazil
StateSão Paulo
Metropolitan RegionSorocaba
Portuguese Empire1654
Founded byBaltazar Fernandes
Named forSorocaba River
Government
 • TypeSorocaba City Hall
 • MayorJosé Caldini Crespo (Democrats)
 • Speaker of the Council - Municipal Chamber of SorocabaJoão Donizeti Silvestre (PSDB)
Area
 • Municipality
450.38 km2 (173.89 sq mi)
Elevation
601 m (1,972 ft)
Population
 (2015)
 • Municipality
644,919 [1]
 • Metro
1,898,000
DemonymSorocabano (Sorocabanian)
Time zoneUTC-3 (BRT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-2 (BRST)
Postal code
18000 - 18010 - 18020 - 18030 - 18040 - 18050 - 18060 - 18070 - 18080 - 18090 - 18100
Phone code+55 15
Municipal HolidayAugust 15
Websitewww.sorocaba.sp.gov.br

Sorocaba (Portuguese pronunciation: [so̞ɾo̞ˈkabɐ]) is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Sorocaba is the eighth-largest city in the state of São Paulo. Outside the Greater São Paulo region, it ranks behind only Campinas, São José dos Campos and Ribeirão Preto. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba.[2] The population is 644,919 (2015 est.) in an area of 450.38 km2.[3]

Over the past twelve years the city has been undergoing extensive urbanization projects, [citation needed] improving streets and avenues, as well as infrastructure for the traffic which the city receives every day.

It is the eighth and fourth municipality in the consumer market in the state outside the Greater São Paulo metropolitan area, with a potential annual per capita consumption estimated at $2,400 for the urban population and $917 for rural areas (7200 people) and twenty-ninth-largest city in Brazil with potential for consumption. Still, it is the fourth-largest city of the state to receive new investments and one of the largest in the country, figuring in the list of 30 cities that create more jobs in Brazil.

History

Dom Francisco de Sousa, general governor of Brazil (1591 to 1602), believing in the existence of gold in the region, settled the Pelourinho—a Portuguese translation of the English "pillory", symbol of the Royal power, as the village Nova Vila de Nossa Senhora da Ponte de Mont Serrat. When gold wasn't found there, the governor returned to the Royal Court. Twelve years later, Dom Francisco de Sousa changed the name of the village to Itavuvu.

Baltasar Fernandes, a member of an expeditionary group called Bandeirantes, laid the foundation of Sorocaba in the 1654. The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Ponte (which is now the Cathedral located in Fernando Prestes square, downtown) was built by him, along with the São Bento de Parnaíba monastery (now São Bento monastery) years later. It was also Fernandes who brought the first Benedictine monks to teach, assist the poor and the ill, and convert the Native Americans of the region. The monastery was donated to the Benedictines in the year 1660, after which Friar Anselmo da Anunciação and Friar Mauro were chosen to take office. The first streets and houses started to spread around the neighborhood.

In the year of 1661, Baltasar Fernandes went to São Paulo to request that Sorocaba be named a village from the governor, Correia de Sá e Benevides. Thus, on March 3, 1661, Sorocaba became known as Vila de Nossa Senhora da Ponte de Sorocaba. The organization of the Municipal Council followed shortly, with the main nominees being: Baltasar Fernandes and André de Zunega (judges), Cláudio Furquim and Pascoal Leite Pais (city councillors), Domingos Garcia (procurator) and Francisco Sanches (clerk).

With the arrival of colonel Cristóvão Pereira de Abreu and his troops in 1773, begins the main chapter of the history of Sorocaba: the Tropeirismo.

The transportation of goods on the back of mules, that traversed the North-South route of the country came across Sorocaba, which was strategically placed in the main route between Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Soon Sorocaba had its own Feira de Muares (mule/horse fair), where troops from all states came to feed and rest their cavalry on the way to the mineral and forest expeditions, and buy and sell goods, horses and enslaved Africans. Given the growing number of people working in the city, the commerce and the first industries began to appear. Goods bought in Sorocaba were known from across the Country, spread by the merchant troops. The main events of Tropeirismo comprehended a hundred years of the Sorocaba history, from 1770 to 1870.

During the American Civil War, English textile industries ran out of cotton, which was imported from the Southern United States. Soon, manufactures from England started to search around the world for alternative places to cultivate cotton - one of them was the then-Province of São Paulo, which included Sorocaba. In 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel Francisco Gonçalves de Oliveira Machado started the first cotton plantation in Sorocaba. The local environment and weather were ideal, and the plantation flourished. The first harvest exceeded all expectations, starting another cycle of industrial and economic development. Several textile industries from England built branches in the city, changing the landscape with chimneys, saw-styled roofs, large, orange brick-built buildings and smoke. During this time, Sorocaba received the title of Manchester Paulista--"São Paulo native" in Portuguese, given the resemblance with its laboring twin city.

With the opening of the Sorocabana railway on June 20, 1872 and its transport of cotton products, animals and passengers to São Paulo, Sorocaba had a major leap in development. Six locomotives and 62 bandwagons were brought from England, with seven stations initially planned.

Telegraphic services started on April 3, 1873. Years later, the railway expanded to the borders of the state, with Sorocaba station as the hub.

Geography

Location

The city is located in the southeastern region of the state of São Paulo, 92 km away from the state capital. The main highways are Castelo Branco (SP-280) and Raposo Tavares (SP-270). It straddles the Sorocaba River, a tributary of the left bank of the Tiete river. The municipality of Sorocaba is located on the Tropic of Capricorn, at latitude 23° 26 '16 " for the season of 2011, passes along the neighborhoods of Aparecidinha and Parque São Bento districts. At the junction of Highway José Ermírio José de Morais (SP-75) with the connection to the Raposo Tavares highway is a milestone signaling the Tropic. Among Brazil's largest cities (by population), Sorocaba is in 30th place. Sorocaba is among the major cities in São Paulo (population), is ranked ninth.

Demography

According IBGE, 2010 Census, the population of Sorocaba 586,311 inhabitants. There was growth of 18.81% compared to 2000. The population density is 1,305.46 inhabitants per square kilometer. Women are the majority in Sorocaba, with 51.1% of the total. In absolute numbers, are 299,513 women and 286,798 men. indeed, Sorocaba has 12,715 women more than men. There are large predominance of urban population in Sorocaba, with only 1% of the population (5971 residents) living in rural areas, compared with 580,340 in urban areas. Among the largest cities in Brazil (in population), Sorocaba is in 30th place. Already among the largest cities in São Paulo (in population), is ranked ninth.

Climate

Sorocaba climate is subtropical, temperate, warm the coldest month being July and warmest in February. Precipitation is around 1,300 mm (51.2 inches). According to Köppen, Sorocaba can be classified as a humid subtropical climate "Cwa" featuring a warm climate with summer rainfall and temperature in the warmest month ≥ 22 °C (72 °F).

The climate table below shows the monthly mean temperatures, maximum and minimum recorded, rainfall and rainy days with monthly and annual averages for the period from 1 January 1995 to January 1, 2011 for the city of Sorocaba.

Climate data for Sorocaba, Brazil (1995–2011)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 34
(93) 		34
(93) 		34
(93) 		32
(90) 		30
(86) 		28
(82) 		30
(86) 		32
(90) 		34
(93) 		34
(93) 		34
(93) 		34
(93) 		34
(93)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 30
(86) 		30
(86) 		30
(86) 		28
(82) 		25
(77) 		24
(75) 		24
(75) 		27
(81) 		27
(81) 		29
(84) 		29
(84) 		30
(86) 		28
(82)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 20
(68) 		20
(68) 		19
(66) 		18
(64) 		14
(57) 		13
(55) 		12
(54) 		13
(55) 		15
(59) 		17
(63) 		18
(64) 		19
(66) 		17
(63)
Record low °C (°F) 16
(61) 		16
(61) 		16
(61) 		13
(55) 		9
(48) 		8
(46) 		7
(45) 		7
(45) 		10
(50) 		12
(54) 		13
(55) 		14
(57) 		7
(45)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 288
(11.3) 		157
(6.2) 		118
(4.6) 		42
(1.7) 		62
(2.4) 		33
(1.3) 		52
(2.0) 		28
(1.1) 		63
(2.5) 		87
(3.4) 		127
(5.0) 		178
(7.0) 		1,235
(48.6)
Average rainy days 17 13 10 6 6 4 5 4 7 10 10 13 105
Source: CIIAGRO[4]

Land relief

The terrain is classified as a wavy strands and characterized by local ridges, with an average altitude of 632 meters above the sea level. The highest altitude is 1028 meters, in the Serra de Sao Francisco. The lower altitude is 539 meters, in the valley of the Sorocaba River. Sorocaba is located on the edge of the Peripheral Depression of São Paulo state, in the Appalachian Fall Line, as defined by Professor Aziz Ab'Saber. This configuration is due to the fact Sorocaba lies at the boundary between the Atlantic Plateau, which covers the area of crystalline rocks, with higher relief and the rocks of the Parana Sedimentary Basin and gently rolling topography with lower altitudes. The Sorocaba River and its hydrographic basin are responsible for the relief dissection.

Soil

The soil is characterized as red-yellow podzolic type, with gravelly clay, heavy clay, Typic dark clayey; oxisol with clay loam. Lithosols also occur, which are usually developed with little depressions.

Vegetation

The original natural vegetation was the Atlantic Forest, with local regions in a Montana Tropical Rainforest. Predominate the savannah vegetation in various stages of secondary succession.

Geology

Sorocaba is located exactly on the limit between the sedimentary rocks of Parana Sedimentary Basin (Itararé Group, in glacial and deltaic palaeoenvironments of Permian-Carboniferous age) and crystalline basement (Neoproterozoic). Important granite massifs are Sorocaba Massif (calc-alkaline I-Type) and São Francisco Massif (Subalkaline, A-Type). Metamorphic low grade rocks as phyllites, metacalcareous, metarenites, are marine metassediments are included in Sao Roque Group (Neoproterozoic) with structural trend northeast-southwest. The Ipanema Hill or Araçoiaba Ridge is a prominent and isolated topographic elevation, it comprises ultrabasic-alkaline intrusion age (Mesozoic, Early Cretaceous), remnant of ancient volcano. It was the first iron mine, ironworks and metallurgy of Brazil, Ipanema. The ore was exploited from magnetite, probably associated to carbonatite body.

Industry

Sorocaba's industrial park is well-served by roads, highways, and public transportation. The industrial park boasts more than 25 million square meters and over 1,600 industries. Main economic activities are: industrial machinery, heavy metallurgy, ironmaking and steelmaking, automotive parts, industrial textiles, agricultural equipment, chemical and petrochemical, cement production, eolic energy, pharmaceutics, paper and cellulose, electronics, telecommunications, tools, commerce and services. Its tools, automotive parts and pharmaceutics industry are the biggest in Brazil.

The Ferroban railroad (formerly Sorocabana Railway and FEPASA) are connected to São Paulo and the Santos Seaport, the largest seaport in South America. The railroad is also an important link to Mercosur, reaching both Argentina and Bolivia.

Sorocaba also boasts a dry port terminal, which provides efficient road linkages to the various ports and airports of the region including Bertram Luiz Leupolz Airport, which has one of the busiest cargo terminals in the State. A second airport, with much higher traffic and passenger capacity is currently being planned for the upcoming years.

Economy

Sorocaba's economic development is fifth in the state, with investments in the order of US$3,5 billion, with US$3 billion in Gross Domestic Product. Its industries export to over 115 countries, with an income of US$370 million per year. There are over eight thousand commerce organizations and another 8,000 service businesses.

Education

Sorocaba has nine universities, seven private: University of Medical and Health Sciences at the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), University of Sorocaba (UNISO), ESAMC Sorocaba, Anhanguera, Uirapuru Superior, Academia de Letras de Sorocaba, University Paulista (UNIP), and two public Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar).

It also has nine colleges: Law School of Sorocaba (FADI), recommended by OAB the year 2007 the FADI received the seal of quality issued by the institution to law courses that have had the best quality indexes in recent years. Engineering College of Sorocaba (FACENS), College of Technology of São Paulo - Sorocaba (FATEC-SO), College of Physical Education YMCA Sorocaba (FEFISO), Manchester Paulista Institute of Higher Education (IMAP), Academy of Higher Education (AES), Graduate School of Management, Marketing and Communication (ESAMC) Anhanguera Educational Sorocabano Uirapuru Education Center and the Union of Educational Institutions of São Paulo (UNIESP), among others schools.

There are four hundred public schools between municipal and private ones from elementary to high school, many with professionalizing courses. National Industry and Commerce Service Institutions like SENAI SENAC | Senac, are also present in the city, besides the State Technical School of London | State Technical School and Rubens de Faria e Souza, State Technical School of São Paulo | Technical School Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque and the Polytechnic School of Sorocaba (free of charge), which also houses the Standart School of Sorocaba, Antonio Padilha school.

The Law School of Sorocaba (FADI), recommended by the Bar Association of Brazil in 2004 and 2007, received the seal of quality issued by the institution to law courses that have had the best quality indexes in recent years.

Health

Hospital Santa Lucinda, located in Sorocaba Hospital Complex of the Sorocaba Conjunto Hospitalar ZonaSul

The city's health care is well served with many hospitals like Hospital Santa Lucinda, Conjunto Hospitalar de Sorocaba, Santa Casa de Misericórdia (founded over 200 years ago), Evangelical Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, Hospital Unimed, etc. The Ophthalmological Hospital[5] is the hospital that performs more transplants and corneal uptake in Brazil. It was honored at the Distinction Award in Organ Donation of the Secretariat of Health of Brazil and has succeeded in eliminating the waiting list for transplants in the region of Sorocaba and the entire city of São Paulo. [citation needed]

Hospital Santa Lucinda achieved its 100th kidney transplant in 2004.[6] In 2007, we opened 12 rooms with high-tech equipment, the result of an investment of about $2.5 million from the St. Paul Foundation.[7]

The Sorocaba Hospital Complex is responsible for servicing the tertiary level of 48 municipalities in southwest São Paulo with a population of over 3 million inhabitants. Reference state is the treatment of burn victims[8] and in 2009 over R$5 million were investing into building a new matternity ward.[9] The scientific work in the area of burns in the year 2009 awarded by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery and was coordinated by Dr. Hamilton Aleardo Gonella and held at CHS. For a year, Gonella's team researched the application of nanocrystalline silver dressings. The technique, tested in five patients of CHS, showed positive results, expanding the range of dressing change which reduces the patient's suffering and costs in hospital care. The Plastic Surgery Service CHS has 34 awards for scientific work in various areas. About burns, are at least ten.[10]

The Ambulatory Hernia Surgery is the CHS model,[11] several training sessions are conducted for surgeons throughout the country. Sorocaba is a technique performed the cut is between 2 and 2.5 cm, smaller than the procedures used elsewhere.[12]

The Faculty of Medicine of Sorocaba - the first medical school in the interior of Brazil - was founded in 1950 and is one of the most responsible for Sorocaba be a reference center for health in Brazil having formed many renowned professionals.

Resources

Two International Convention Centers are available. Sorocaba's three main newspapers are the Jornal Bom Dia, Cruzeiro do Sul and the Diário de Sorocaba.

Sights

There are many parks open to the public, such as historical churches, walking and racing courses, historical monuments, museums, mausoleums and memorials, various spas and horse farms. The municipal Zoo "Quinzinho de Barros", is one of the largest zoos in South America.

Transport

Railway - Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana

Airport

Sorocaba Airport is used by small aircraft, are made almost no commercial flights. Among the services provided are mainly for the transport of cargo.

Azul Brazilian Airlines[13] offer for its passengers free bus transfers between Sorocaba and Campinas-Viracopos International Airport at regular times.

Highways

Urban Transport

Sorocaba has two urban bus terminals: São Paulo e Santo Antônio.

Bike/cycle lanes

The city has 60 kilometers of bike lanes created in the city's main avenues, and it can be crossed only using bicycles for transportation. The planning of the municipality provides for the construction of the largest cycling network in Latin America in coming years and implement a public bike system, similar to European cities as Barcelona and Paris. Sorocaba is currently the second-largest cycling loop of Brazil, after Rio de Janeiro.

Administration

The current Mayor is Antonio Carlos Pannunzio, from the Brazilian Social Democratic Party--(PSDB), who has been in office since January 2013.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Brazil

Twin towns – Sister cities

Sorocaba is twinned with:

References

  1. ^ "IBGE | Cidades | São Paulo | Sorocaba". cod.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  2. ^ Governo do Estado de São Paulo, Lei Complementar nº 1.241, de 8 de maio de 2014 at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 October 2014)
  3. ^ "IBGE | Cidades | São Paulo | Sorocaba | Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística". cod.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  4. ^ "CIIAGRO - Centro integrado de informações agrometeorológicas - IAC | Sorocaba climate period from 01/01/1995 to 01/01/2011". ciiagro.sp.gov.br. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  5. ^ "St. Paul honors champions of transplants". Retrieved 2009-10-27.
  6. ^ Batista, Evenize (10 June 2004). "Team performs 100. º kidney transplant". Cruzeiro do Sul. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
  7. ^ "inaugurates new surgical center in Santa Lucinda". Cruzeiro do Sul. 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
  8. ^ http://www.cruzeirodosul.inf.br/acervo/2007/11/11/20071111-caderno_de_domingo-37833.shtml
  9. ^ http://www.cruzeirodosul.inf.br/acervo/2009/06/07/20090607-sorocaba-191818.shtml
  10. ^ http://www.bomdiasorocaba.com.br/Noticias/Dia-a-dia/6044/Congresso+premia+trabalho+sobre+queimadura+no+CHS
  11. ^ http://www.cruzeirodosul.inf.br/acervo/2005/06/17/20050617-cidades-373451.shtml
  12. ^ http://www.cruzeirodosul.inf.br/acervo/2005/12/14 / 20051214-city-379274.shtml
  13. ^ "Ônibus Executivo/Sorocaba-Aeroporto de Viracopos" (in Portuguese). Azul Brazilian Airlines. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  14. ^ "Nanchang City and Sister Cities Intercommunion". Nanchang Municipal Party Committee of the CPC and Nanchang Municipal Government. Nanchang Economic Information Center. Archived from the original on 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  • Prefeitura de Sorocaba "Conhecendo a sua Cidade", Conheça Sorocaba, November 13, 2007. Accessed November 13, 2007.
  • Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística "Cidades@", Sorocaba, November 13, 2007. Accessed November 13, 2007.
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