🇧🇷 Porto Ferreira is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is situated on the Mojiguaçu River at an altitude of 559 meters.
1History The valley where Porto Ferreira now lies used to be inhabited by Payaguá people. The settlement Porto Ferreira on the Mojiguaçu River was founded in the 1860s, at the place of a ferry. It was named Ferreira after the ferryman João Inácio Ferreira. The settlement grew because of its strategic location on the way to the coffee plantations in the region of Ribeirão Preto. Porto Ferreira was officially established on 9 February 1888, as a part of the municipality Descalvado. It was detached from Descalvado and attached to Pirassununga on 1 October 1892. It became an independent municipality on 29 July 1896.
1Geography The highest point of the city is the High Mount, with 798 meters. The lowest point is the Island of the Ducks, with 545 meters. In the Railroad station the altitude is of 549.7 meters above sea level.
The municipality holds the 611 hectares (1,510 acres) Porto Ferreira State Park, created in 1987.
1Geography: Topography The general city landscape is flat, with small hills, slightly sloping towards the basins of the Moji Guaçu river and its tributaries. To the north, is possible to see some mountains.
1Ways of Communication The city is served by two state highways, Rodovia Anhangüera (SP 330), SP 215. There are also the disused rails from the former state railway company, FEPASA.
1Soil Four types of soil are found, thus distributed for the area of the city: Yellow Red Latosol (62 km ²), Purple Latosol (74 km ²), Hidromórfico (27 km ²) and Dark Red Latosol (77 km ²).
1Geography: Hydrography • Mojiguaçu River • River Santa Rosa • Amaros stream
1Porto Ferreira has a population of over 56,504 people. Porto Ferreira also forms one of the centres of the wider São Carlos region which has a population of over 525,411 people.
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🇧🇷 Poços de Caldas -21.788
🇧🇷 Posos de Caldos -21.783
🇧🇷 Araraquara -21.783
🇧🇷 Juiz de Fora -21.758
🇧🇷 Campos dos Goytacazes -21.755
🇧🇷 Adamantina -21.687
🇧🇷 São João da Boa Vista -21.984
🇧🇷 Pirassununga -21.998
🇧🇷 São Carlos -22
🇧🇷 São Lourenço -22.1
🇧🇷 Presidente Prudente -22.127
🇧🇷 Votorantim -47.433
🇧🇷 Pirassununga -47.428
🇧🇷 Santa Bárbara d'Oeste -47.415
🇧🇷 Paragominas -47.35
🇧🇷 Imperatriz -47.478
🇧🇷 Açailândia -47.5
🇧🇷 Porto Feliz -47.517
🇧🇷 Piracicaba -47.633
🇧🇷 Bico do Papagaio -47.67
🇧🇷 Ribeirão Prêto -47.82
Locations Near: Porto Ferreira -47.4765,-21.8581
🇧🇷 Pirassununga -47.428,-21.998 d: 16.3
🇧🇷 Leme -47.391,-22.186 d: 37.5
🇧🇷 São Carlos -47.883,-22 d: 44.8
🇧🇷 Araras -47.385,-22.358 d: 56.4
🇧🇷 Rio Claro -47.563,-22.412 d: 62.2
🇧🇷 Mococa -47.002,-21.465 d: 65.7
🇧🇷 Araraquara -48.167,-21.783 d: 71.7
🇧🇷 Limeira -47.4,-22.55 d: 77.3
🇧🇷 São João da Boa Vista -46.785,-21.984 d: 72.7
🇧🇷 Mogi Guaçu -46.942,-22.373 d: 79.5
Antipodal to: Porto Ferreira 132.524,21.858
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