São José do Rio Preto

São José do Rio Preto is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The 2022 census figures compiled by City Population count 480,393 inhabitants in the municipality, against 408,258 at the 2010 census and 358,523 at the 2000 census. GeoNames places São José do Rio Preto at latitude -20.81972 and longitude -49.37944, about 505 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, and assigns it to a time zone that is UTC-3 in the IANA time zone database. GeoNames lists it as the seat of a second-order administrative division. São José do Rio Preto is not the capital of São Paulo, which is São Paulo. The atlas places it in the South America subregion and treats it as a city for browsing purposes.