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Euclides da Cunha Paulista 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 ...
in
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It is named after
Euclides da Cunha Euclides da Cunha (, January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909) was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is '' Os Sertões'' (''Rebellion in the Backlands''), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions ...
, a Brazilian writer. The population is 9,325 (2020 est.) in an area of 574 km². The elevation is 265 m. The municipality contains 30% of the
Mico Leão Preto Ecological Station The Mico Leão Preto Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Mico Leão Preto) is an Ecological station in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects four fragments of Atlantic Forest in a region that has lost most of its forest coverage ...
, established in 2002. It also contains part of the
Great Pontal Reserve The Great Pontal Reserve ( pt, Grande Reserva do Pontal), formally called the Pontal do Paranapanema State Reserve ( pt, Reserva Estadual Pontal do Paranapanema), is an ecological reserve is the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was created in 1942, ...
, created in 1942.


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