Pompeia, São Paulo

Pompeia (before AO 1990: Pompéia) is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 21,375 (2015) within an area of 784 km².[1] In 2000, its Human Development Index was 0.816.

Pompeia
Municipality
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Location in São Paulo state
Pompeia
Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 22°06′31″S 50°10′18″W
CountryBrazil
RegionSoutheast
StateSão Paulo
Government
 • MayorTina Januário (PTB)
Area
 • Total784 km2 (303 sq mi)
Elevation
597 m (1,959 ft)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total21,375
 • Density27/km2 (71/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-03:00 (BRT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-02:00 (BRST)
Websitewww.pompeia.sp.gov.br

History

The region of Pompeia was originally inhabited by Kaingang natives, called Coroados ("Crowned") by the Portuguese colonizers. The first settlers arrived in 1852, when the Imperial Government granted João Antonio de Moraes, Francisco de Paula Morais and Francisco Rodrigues de Campos occupancy over the lands in the surroundings of Rio do Peixe and Aguapeí River (São Paulo).

In 1919, Júlio da Costa Barros purchased a share of Guataporanga farm for agricultural purposes. In the following three years, the first Coffea plantations started to grow. Later on, abiding by a condition from Guataporanga Farm's landowner, Barros founded Vila de Novo Cravinhos, name given after Cravinhos, where the first customers of theirs came from. The clear-cutting in the nearby started alongside with the construction of former Noroeste do Brasil Railroad in order to link the cities of Bauru (São Paulo) and Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul).

Jacutinga Farm was the first to arise in the environs. Its landowner Rodolfo Lara Campos acquired it in order to grown Coffea large-scale profit crops and started the deforestation of the region where later the city of Pompeia would be established. In 1928, Rodolfo and Luiz Miranda planned the foundation of a city and commanded the cutting of a 250 hectare area, which was named Patrimônio de Otomânia ("Otomânia's Patrimony) and after being divided into lots the first of those began to be sold. A few years later, Patrimônio was officially renamed Pompeia after senator Rodolfo Miranda's wife, Aretuza Pompeia.

As several cities of the state of São Paulo, Pompeia was majorly populated by Portuguese, Italian and Japanese immigrants. The latter's culture even nowadays is still remarkable in traditional festivities and the architectural design of the city, e.g. many bus stops have roofs with eaves curved.

Education

Pompeia has become a reference in Education within the state of São Paulo and also in nationwide indicators.[2] It was listed as one of the 500 cities that offer more educational opportunitites in Brazil.[3] Since 2013, Shunji Nishimura Foundation of Technology has collaborated with Faculdade de Tecnologia offering graduation courses of Mechanization of Precision Agriculture and Big Data in Agribusiness, which has contributed to transform the city into a new hub for higher education.

Máquinas Agrícolas Jacto

In 1948, the Jacto Group[4] was founded in the city by Japanese immigrant Shunji Nishimura, who arrived in Brazil in 1932. Graduated at Dai-Ichi Kogyo Gakko Industrial School in Kyoto, Nishimura and his family developed agricultural fixing equipment which gradatively gained more popularity among farmers and agricultural families in the countryside of not only São Paulo but also other states of Brazil.

The company has been one of the top earners of the city and a major revenue stream of the Midwestern state of São Paulo. The Nishimura family was also responsible for the Shunji Nishimura Foundation of Technology, created to provide farmers testing services to determine soil fertility and analyze plant tissues, as well as working on continuous technological improvement in rural areas.

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References
  1. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
  2. Interativa, Supra Comunicação. "IOEB - Índice de Oportunidades da Educação Brasileira - Pompeia (SP)". www.ioeb.org.br. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  3. "As 500 melhores cidades brasileiras em Educação | EXAME". exame.abril.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  4. "Jacto". Jacto. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
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