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State: São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...

Meso-region: Vale do Paraíba Paulista
Microrregions: Guaratinguetá
Guaratinguetá (micro-region)
The Microregion of Guaratinguetá is a microregion in the east of São Paulo State, Brazil. The microregion is the bordered by the state of Rio de Janeiro to the north.- Municipalities:* Aparecida* Cachoeira Paulista* Canas* Cruzeiro* Guaratinguetá...

Founded: 27 June 1888
Location
Location (geography)
The terms location and place in geography are used to identify a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term 'location' generally implies a higher degree of can certainty than "place" which often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes of place identity...

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22.508/22° 34' 15" S, 46.902/46° 54' 8" W
Area
Area
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...

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167.38 km²
Population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

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Change from 2000 
6,692(2004)
Ranked
up from 11.4%
Population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

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39.98/km²
Elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

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508 m
Postal code: 12790-xxx
Area/distance code: (00)55-19-365x-xxxx
Climate
Climate
Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods...

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Subtropical
Name of inhabitants or denomym: Lavrinhense
Website: www.lavrinhas.sp.gov.br
Population Statistics (as of 2001)
Urban: 5,307
Rural: 701
Other
Literacy rate: 89.84%


Lavrinhas is a municipality/county in the state of São Paulo
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...

 in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The population in 2004 is 6,692 and the area is 167.38 km² (64.6 sq mi). The elevation is 508 m (1,667 ft). The state of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

 is bounded to the north.

Coat of arms

Its coat of arms has a red shield with the tag at the bottom reading Cave nam Viglio with two soldiers on each side and with three swords over three mountaintops coloured in orange.

Flag

Its flag colors are white on the left side and yellow on the right side with its coat of arms of the left. The line is not straight.

Population history

Year Population Change Density
2000 6,008 - 36/km²
2004 6,692 +684 or +11.4% 39.98km²

External links

http://www.lavrinhas.sp.gov.br Lavrinha on citybrazil.com.br
North: Passa-Quatro
Passa-Quatro
Passa-Quatro is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population in 2000 was 14,485, and 15,300 in 2003. The population density is 55.23/km² and the area is 277 km²...

, Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

West: Cruzeiro
Cruzeiro, São Paulo
Cruzeiro is a city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is located about from the state capital...

Lavrinha East: Queluz
Queluz, São Paulo
Queluz is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2003 was 9,544, the density was 38.33/km² and the area is . The area to the northeast marks the boundaries with two other states, Minas Gerais to the north and Rio de Janeiro to the east.The city came from a village of...

South: Silveiras
Silveiras
Silveiras is a municipality in São Paulo State, Brazil. The population in 2004 was 5,616, the density was 13.51/km² and the area is 415.74 km². The elevation is 615 m.-External links: http://www.silveiras.sp.gov.br...

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