São Gonçalo

São Gonçalo is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the Southeast region of Brazil, and one of the most populous municipalities of the state and of the country; the 2022 census figure given by its article is 896,744 inhabitants. Its coast was the scene in the sixteenth century of the revolt known as the Confederation of Tamoios, in which Tupi peoples and the French fought the Portuguese. European settlement began at the end of that century under Jesuit priests, who set up a farm in the area known as Colubandê, near the present RJ-104 highway. Industry arrived in the twentieth century, among it a metallurgical works established in 1925 and the fish canning factory that became Coqueiro in 1937. The ground is crystalline, divided into massifs and coastal hills, and the climate is tropical and subtropical with summer rain and a relatively dry winter.