Santa Isabel, São Paulo, Southeast Region, Brazil

History | Geography

🇧🇷 Santa Isabel is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The elevation is 655 m. It is located 60 miles east of the downtown of the city of São Paulo.

History The town of Santa Isabel was named after a Portuguese queen, Isabel or Elizabeth of Aragon (b. 1271- d. 1336), who was canonized by Pope Urban VIII in 1625. The town was founded in the 18th century, when Brazil was still a colony of Portugal.

Geography Santa Isabel belongs to the Guarulhos macro region, thus it is part of the Greater São Paulo region as well. The municipality lies in the basins of the Rio Jaguari and the Rio Paraíba do Sul and 84% of the municipality is protected by environmental laws because of its significance as a potable water source The municipality contains part of the 292,000 hectares (720,000 acres) Mananciais do Rio Paraíba do Sul Environmental Protection Area, created in 1982 to protect the sources of the Paraíba do Sul.

The area suffered ecologically from unauthorized uses and in 1996 the Ibirapitanga Reserve on the Rio dos Pilões was created to preserve one of the last stands of Brazilian Atlantic forest and to permit managed urban growth.

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Santa Isabel has a population of over 57,966 people. Santa Isabel also forms one of the centres of the wider São Paulo Metropolitan Region which has a population of over 23,455,256 people.

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Antipodal to Santa Isabel is: 133.783,23.3

Locations Near: Santa Isabel -46.2167,-23.3

🇧🇷 Itaquaquecetuba -46.333,-23.483 d: 23.6  

🇧🇷 Mogi das Cruzes -46.183,-23.517 d: 24.3  

🇧🇷 Suzano -46.3,-23.533 d: 27.3  

🇧🇷 Poá -46.344,-23.526 d: 28.3  

🇧🇷 Jacareí -45.95,-23.3 d: 27.2  

🇧🇷 Ferraz de Vasconcelos -46.37,-23.543 d: 31.2  

🇧🇷 São José dos Campos -45.894,-23.204 d: 34.7  

🇧🇷 Mairiporã -46.583,-23.317 d: 37.5  

🇧🇷 Atibaia -46.55,-23.117 d: 39.6  

🇧🇷 Mauá -46.457,-23.68 d: 48.8  

Antipodal to: Santa Isabel 133.783,23.3

🇯🇵 Amami 129.483,28.367 d: 19306.3  

🇯🇵 Nago 127.978,26.592 d: 19324.9  

🇯🇵 Ginowan 127.78,26.279 d: 19324.6  

🇯🇵 Okinawa City 127.793,26.343 d: 19322.4  

🇯🇵 Urasoe 127.734,26.254 d: 19321.7  

🇯🇵 Okinawa 127.809,26.409 d: 19320.4  

🇯🇵 Naha 127.702,26.199 d: 19321.7  

🇯🇵 Tomigusuku 127.667,26.15 d: 19320.9  

🇯🇵 Makishi 127.667,26.2 d: 19318.5  

🇯🇵 Kanoya 130.847,31.382 d: 19070.9  

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