Largo da Batata is a public square located in the district of Pinheiros, in the Brazilian city of

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

. It is located at the confluence of

Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima (in English: ''Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue''), most commonly known as just ''Faria Lima'', is an important avenue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It spans the upscale Pinheiros, Jardim Paulistano, Itaim Bibi and ...

and the streets Pinheiros, Teodoro Sampaio, Cardeal Arcoverde, Baltazar Carrasco, Martim Carrasco, Chopin Tavares de Lima and Fernão Dias.Processo de aprovação do Projeto de Lei nº 220/2011
/ref> The Metro Line 4 Faria Lima Station and the Largo da Batata bus terminal (under construction) are located there. Largo da Batata became a rallying point for political demonstrations.

History

There are records of the region's occupation by native people around 1560, the year that marks the foundation of the district of Pinheiros. The Guayana Indians were transferred from the village of São Paulo de Piratininga to the region, where the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição was founded by Jesuits

José de Anchieta José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo (Joseph of Anchieta) (19 March 1534 – 9 June 1597) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's hi ...

and

Manuel da Nóbrega Manuel da Nóbrega (old spelling ''Manoel da Nóbrega'') (18 October 1517 – 18 October 1570) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and first Provincial of the Society of Jesus in colonial Brazil. Together with José de Anchieta, he was very influe ...

. In the 20th century, a market for agricultural products, known as the ''Mercado Caipira'', was established in the region and, from 1909, a municipal market was built. The place has been known as Largo da Batata (''Potato Square or Potato Plaza'') since the 1920s, because it concentrated potato vendors near the Cooperativa Agrícola de Cotia (

Cotia Cotia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 253,608 (2020 est.) in an area of 323.99 km². The city is at an elevation of 853 m. Cotia is linked with th ...

Agricultural Cooperative) stand. However, only in July 2012 the square received the name officially, by the Law nº 15.615 / 2012.

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History

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