Osasco

Osasco is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo area and ranking fifth in population among the municipalities of the state. Its article gives a population of 699,944 in 2020 on an area of 64.95 square kilometres, a very dense urban setting of more than ten thousand people per square kilometre. The town was founded in the nineteenth century by an Italian immigrant, Antônio Giuseppe Agù, whose name survives in one of the main streets of Osasco. The average elevation is 792 metres, and as across almost all of the São Paulo metropolitan area the climate is humid subtropical. The census count was 652,593 inhabitants in the year 2000.