Indaiatuba

Indaiatuba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. It covers 311.5 square kilometres at an elevation of 624 metres and had 255,748 residents at the 2022 census, up from 201,619 in 2010. Its name comes from the Tupi language and roughly means gathering of palm trees. It grew from a rural district of Itu in the late eighteenth century, was first recorded as Indayatiba in a 1768 census, and won political autonomy as a village in 1859. The railway that reached the town in the late nineteenth century connected it to São Paulo and brought immigrant farmers. It is an important city in one of the main industrial regions of Brazil and has ranked first in the national IFDM social index.