🇧🇷 Rio Claro is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The elevation is 613 m. It was incorporated as the village of São João Batista do Ribeirão Claro in 1827, and this incorporation is celebrated every year on June 24 as a municipal holiday. The name was changed later to Rio Claro. Starting in the 19th century, Rio Claro attracted large numbers of immigrants from European countries, especially from Germany, Switzerland and Italy, but also from Spain, Portugal, some Eastern European countries, and a substantial community of Christian Arabs from the then Ottoman Empire (mostly Syrian and Lebanese).
Japanese immigrants arrived later. There is also a large population of Afro-Brazilians.
Rio Claro used to play a very important role in the railway system of São Paulo state.
1Education Rio Claro hosts one public university, UNESP, offering courses in Geology, Geography, Environmental Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Physical Education, Ecology, Biology and Pedagogy (teacher training).
1Facts • Budget: R$178,542,000.00 (2005) • Infant mortality rate: 11.76 deaths/1,000 live births • Literacy: 94.9% (2000) • Life expectancy at birth: 71.34 years
1Sport The city's two football (soccer) clubs are Rio Claro Futebol Clube, founded in 1909, and Associação Esportiva Velo Clube Rioclarense, founded in 1910.
1Rio Claro has a population of over 208,000 people. Rio Claro also forms one of the centres of the wider Piracicaba Region which has a population of over 1,537,819 people.
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🇵🇾 Filadelfia -22.333
🇧🇷 Nova Friburgo -22.282
🇧🇷 Nova Andradina -22.248
🇧🇷 Teresópolis -22.412
🇧🇷 Mogi Mirim -22.432
🇧🇷 Barra do Piraí -22.467
🇧🇷 Casimiro de Abreu -22.467
🇧🇷 Rio das Ostras -22.497
🇧🇷 Porto Feliz -47.517
🇧🇷 Açailândia -47.5
🇧🇷 Imperatriz -47.478
🇧🇷 Porto Ferreira -47.477
🇧🇷 Votorantim -47.433
🇧🇷 Pirassununga -47.428
🇧🇷 Santa Bárbara d'Oeste -47.415
🇧🇷 Piracicaba -47.633
🇧🇷 Bico do Papagaio -47.67
🇧🇷 Ribeirão Prêto -47.82
🇧🇷 São Joaquim da Barra -47.858
🇧🇷 São Carlos -47.883
Locations Near: Rio Claro -47.5628,-22.4117
🇧🇷 Araras -47.385,-22.358 d: 19.2
🇧🇷 Limeira -47.4,-22.55 d: 22.7
🇧🇷 Leme -47.391,-22.186 d: 30.7
🇧🇷 Piracicaba -47.633,-22.717 d: 34.7
🇧🇷 Santa Bárbara d'Oeste -47.415,-22.754 d: 41
🇧🇷 Pirassununga -47.428,-21.998 d: 48
🇧🇷 Cosmópolis -47.183,-22.633 d: 46.1
🇧🇷 Nova Odessa -47.283,-22.767 d: 48.8
🇧🇷 Sumaré -47.283,-22.8 d: 51.8
🇧🇷 São Carlos -47.883,-22 d: 56.4
Antipodal to: Rio Claro 132.437,22.412
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