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Brotas
Brotas is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of São Paulo. The population is 24,636 (2020 est.) in an area of 1101 km2. The town is known locally for its coffee, on which its economy relies. History The city's history started in 1839 when a chapel was built which originated a settlement around it. Brotas became a district of Araraquara in 1841, then it became a district of Rio Claro in 1853. On August 22, 1859, the district was promoted to a municipality. The municipality experienced its greater development era during the coffee farming expansion which occurred between the 1920s and the 1930s. During this era the city received a large number of Italian immigrants. Due to the coffee agriculture decline, a large number of Brotas' citizens migrated to larger cities. The municipality contains 44% of the Itirapina Ecological Station, created in 1984. Economy Despite its coffee-oriented historical economic development, Brotas is known internationally for its specializ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata Do Jacaré Ecological Station
The Mata do Jacaré Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Mata do Jacaré), formerly the São Carlos Ecological Station, is an ecological station in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It preserves an isolated fragment of the Atlantic Forest biome, with semi-deciduous riparian vegetation. History The Jacaré Forest (Mata do Jacaré) with an area of in the municipality of Brotas, São Paulo, was established by state decree 38.957 of 25 August 1961. This became the São Carlos Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica de São Carlos} by state decree 26.890 of 12 March 1987. A 2002 federal decree said the name of a conservation unit should where possible be based on its most significant natural feature or its oldest name, so it became the Estação Ecológica Mata do Jacaré by state decree 53.237 of 20 July 2012. It is administered by the Forestry Institute of the state environmental secretariat. The unit lies along the south shore of the reservoir formed by the Santana D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacaré-Guaçu River
The Jacaré-Guaçu River is a river of São Paulo state in southeastern Brazil. It flows into the Tietê River near Ibitinga. The river separates the municipalities of Brotas and São Carlos. The Santana Dam creates a reservoir on the river covering . The Mata do Jacaré Ecological Station lies along the south shore of the reservoir.* See also *List of rivers of São Paulo List of rivers in São Paulo (Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in São Paulo dra ... References Brazilian Ministry of Transport Rivers of São Paulo (state) Tributaries of the Tietê {{SaoPauloState-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torrinha
Torrinha is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 9,846 (2015 est.) in an area of 315 km². The elevation is 802 m. History The settlements where today the municipality of Torrinha is located have been shaped by colonization. In the 17th and 18th centuries this portion of the Sao Paulo area was cleared by tropeiros and travellers who landed in search of wealth. With the need for supplies, services, and repairs, fledgling businesses emerged, enabling the establishment of populated areas. This process of occupation intensified with the donation of Sesmarias, which outlined the major farms and future urban areas. The Land Law of 1850 encouraged small farmers from nearby regions to establish themselves in the small village. Some families have lived in Torrinha since 1850. Some of these pioneering family names include: Fonseca Costa, Mello, Dias, Ferreira, Ferraz, Gomes, Ribeiro del Prado, Dias Ramos, Carvalho, Franco de Moraes, Souza, Barros, Teix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itirapina Ecological Station
The Itirapina Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica de Itirapina) is an Ecological station in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Location The Itirapina Ecological Station is divided between the municipalities of Brotas (44.15%) and Itirapina (55.85%) in the state of São Paulo. It has an area of . The area contains a sample of remnants of cerrado vegetation, and also has an important fluvial network that supplies the Lobo Dam. The Itirapina Ecological State and the Itirapina Experimental Station are managed as a whole, and together have an area of . 94% of the ecological station has cerrado vegetation, mostly rocky, clean or wet meadows, as well as cerrado strict sense, riverside forests and cerradão. The experimental station covers including a large area reforested with fast-growing pine and eucalyptus. It is used for forestry research. The buffer zone for the two units covers . History The Itirapina Ecological Station was created by Governor André Franco Montoro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Brazil
The municipalities of Brazil ( pt, municípios do Brasil) are administrative divisions of the states of Brazil, Brazilian states. Brazil currently has 5,570 municipalities, which, given the 2019 population estimate of 210,147,125, makes an average municipality population of 37,728 inhabitants. The average state in Brazil has 214 municipalities. Roraima is the least subdivided state, with 15 municipalities, while Minas Gerais is the most subdivided state, with 853. The Federal District (Brazil), Federal District cannot be divided into Municipality, municipalities, which is why its territory is composed of several Administrative regions of the Federal District (Brazil), administrative regions. These regions are directly managed by the government of the Federal District, which exercises constitutional and legal powers that are equivalent to those of the Federated state, states, as well as those of the Municipality, municipalities, thus simultaneously assuming all the obligations a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities In São Paulo (state)
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Carlos
São Carlos (Saint Charles, in English, ; named after Saint Charles Borromeo) is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, 254 kilometers from the city of São Paulo. With a population of 254,484 inhabitants, it is the 13th largest city in the state in terms of the number of residents, being almost in the center of the state of São Paulo. The municipality is formed by the headquarters and the districts of Água Vermelha, Bela Vista São-Carlense, Santa Eudóxia and Vila Nery. The city is an important regional industrial center, with the economy based on industrial activities and farming, such as the production of sugar cane, orange, milk and chicken. Served by road and rail systems, São Carlos houses several multinational companies. Given local and, in some ways, regional needs, there is a network of commerce and services distributed in street stores, convenience stores and a mall of the Iguatemi network. In the field of research, besides the univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange (fruit)
An orange is a fruit of various citrus species in the family (biology), family Rutaceae (see list of plants known as orange); it primarily refers to Citrus × sinensis, ''Citrus'' × ''sinensis'', which is also called sweet orange, to distinguish it from the related ''Citrus × aurantium'', referred to as bitter orange. The sweet orange reproduces asexually (apomixis through nucellar embryony); varieties of sweet orange arise through mutations. The orange is a Hybrid (biology), hybrid between pomelo (''Citrus maxima'') and Mandarin orange, mandarin (''Citrus reticulata''). The chloroplast genome, and therefore the maternal line, is that of pomelo. The sweet orange has had its full Whole genome sequencing, genome sequenced. The orange originated in a region encompassing Southern China, Northeast India, and Myanmar, and the earliest mention of the sweet orange was in Chinese literature in 314 BC. , orange trees were found to be the most Tillage, cultivated fruit tree in the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar Cane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes. Sugarcanes belong to the grass family, Poaceae, an economically important flowering plant family that includes maize, wheat, rice, and sorghum, and many forage crops. It is native to the warm temperate and tropical regions of India, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea. The plant is also grown for biofuel production, especially in Brazil, as the canes can be used directly to produce ethyl alcohol (ethanol). Grown in tropical and subtropical regions, sugarcane is the world's largest crop by production quantity, totaling 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020, with Brazil accounting for 40% of the world total. Sugarcane accounts for 79% of sugar produced globally (most of the rest is ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacaré Pepira River
Jacaré, Portuguese for "alligator", may refer to: People * Ronaldo Souza (born 1979), Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist, nicknamed ''Jacaré'' * Romero Cavalcanti (born 1952), Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor, nicknamed ''Jacaré'' * Edson Cardoso, a pagode dancer, nicknamed ''Jacaré'' Brazil * Barra do Jacaré * Jacaré (Rio de Janeiro), a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Jacaré dos Homens * Santana do Jacaré Rivers * Jacaré River (other), several rivers * Jacaré Grande River, a river of Pará state in Brazil * Jacaré-Pepira River, a river of São Paulo in southeastern Brazil Other * ''Jacaré'' (film), a 1942 American film directed by Charles E. Ford * Yacare caiman, a species of caiman found in central South America * ''Qualea dichotoma'' (also known as "jacaré"), a species of tree found in southern Brazil * Arena do Jacaré The Estádio Joaquim Henrique Nogueira, or Nogueirão, also nicknamed Arena do Jacaré (Caiman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
