São José do Rio Pardo is a municipality in the state 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 ...

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. The population is 55,124 (2020 est.) in an area of 419 km². The elevation is 676 m. It was founded by Colonel Antônio Marçal Nogueira de Barros in 1870. In the same year, a chapel to

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was built. It became a municipality in 1885, when it was separated from Casa Branca.IBGE
history In the late 1800s and the early 1900s the town received a mass of immigration from northern Italy, those immigrants went to town for working in the coffee fields in replacement of the slave workforce, since slaves were set free in 1888 by an act of Princess Elizabeth.

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* Municipalities in São Paulo (state) Populated places established in 1870 1870 establishments in Brazil {{SaoPauloState-geo-stub