Taquaritinga is a city in the Central North area of the State of
São Paulo
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,
Brazil
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. The population is 57,364 (2020 est.) in an area of 594 km².
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
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an descendants (Italians
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, Spaniards
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, and Portuguese
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). Afro-Brazilian
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s, and Japanese-Brazilian
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s are important minority groups.
The climate is tropical of altitude with dry mild winter and hot rainy summer. The economy of the city is based in agrobusiness (sugarcane, orange, lemon, and fruits) and services. The city has an old and regionally famous music school (Conservatório Santa Cecília), an ETEC (Technical School), and three colleges. The most important of them, FATEC, is a public one with courses on technology. Clube Atlético Taquaritinga
Clube Atlético Taquaritinga, commonly known as Taquaritinga, is a Brazilian football club based in Taquaritinga, São Paulo state. It competes in the Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão, the fourth tier of the São Paulo state football league. ...
, founded in 1942, is the football
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club of the city. The club plays its home matches at Estádio Adail N. da Silva, which has a maximum capacity of approximately 20,000 people.
Notable people
Taquaritinga was the birthplace of:
* Augusto Nunes (b. 1949): journalist
* Edmílson José Gomes de Morais (b. 1976): footballer, 2002 FIFA World Cup
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champion
* José Paulo Paes
José Paulo Paes (22 July 1926 – 9 October 1998) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator.
Biography
Paes was born in Taquaritinga in the state of São Paulo. He studied industrial chemistry in Curitiba, where he also started his ...
(b. July 22, 1926 - d. October 9, 1998) was a poet, translator, literary critic and essayist.
* Luiz Araújo (b. 1996): footballer for Atlanta United
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