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HISTORY: Sorocaba & Industrias The first industrias had appeared in 1,852, manufactured hats and had been established by immigrants German. At this time, it was tried to implant without success a textile industria, enterprise that so would give certain 30 years later, when Sorocaba lives its 1 industrial cycle, and the textile industria was the main economic bed of this cycle. In 1,920, it answered for 80% of the local work force, using 15 a thousand people or 30% of the busy total for this activity in all State. For this period the city gained the nickname of São Paulo Manchester, had the features of its park manufacter. E continued to load this fame exactly when it faced a period of economic stagnation, initiate apos the 2 war, during which the railroad became one of them basic pillars of the economy, over all as source of generation of jobs. This phase alone was breached in 1,969, when it has the beginning of the industrialization cycle. Castello Branco started with the aperture of the highway who allowed the internalization of many companies in the State. The industria that opened this cycle was manufactures it of steel Paulista (FACO), manufacturer of industrial goods, mainly schemes and materials of usinagem, it arrived in 1,969, preceding sets of ten of others, over all manufacturers of automobile components, that had changed the profile of the local productive park. The recent cycle of industrialization changed the face of the city, enters the years of 69 the 74, offers of job in the industrial sector magnified 75%, of 269 companies, had passed to 573, a 113.01% increase. The modern industrias calls, had used 45% of the hand of workmanship used in the industrial sector, that represented half of the busy gallows of work for the formal economy of the city. They are the industrias that had arrived in last the 20 years that had more contributed with the municipal prescription. Hoje the city of Sorocaba has an full industrial park, also with tip companies. Established in 1,654 for Baltazar Fernandes, Sorocaba - expression tupi guarani, that it means Torn Land - had in it deals its first source of income, they alem of loaning the name to it, the aboriginals, its original inhabitants, served of merchandises, that the settlers sold as enslaved. Forbidden this it practises, another on activity to I deal it was the greater factor influences in the local economy, the Fairs of Muares (Muar = race of mus, Mule or Mule). They had started in séc. XVIII, at the time where the Parents lived the fever of extration of the gold, when mules were only capable to face the diversity imposed for the ground in the extrativas regions. To escape of the economic crisis provoked by the prohibition of the sale of the indians, the Sorocabanos had started to carry muares from the Rio Grande Do Sul, where they were servant, for the center of the parents. As the city was, and still it is in strategical position, a breakpoint became of the troops and place of intense I deal in the end of the century. When the cycle of the tropeirismo declined, due mainly to the sprouting of the railroads. It was inaugurated in Sorocaba, the Railroad Sorocabana in 1,875, one of the first ones of the parents, ai the city discovers its vocation the business.

General Aspects: The municipio of Sorocaba is placed in the southwestern region with 90 quilometros of distancia of the São Paulo capital, São Paulo. It presents an average altitude of 600 meters and area of 456 quilometros more than squared, in perimetro urban 249.2 and agricultural 206.8. Sorocaba is served by the river that takes its name and that it crosses all municipio, sensible north - south, discharging in the river Tietê. Other rivers also pass for the municipio, are they: Ipanema, Itangua and Pirajibu. The local population is of approximately 431.000 people, being that the population women 218.000, men 212.000, people, agricultural urban 428.000 and 3.000, live basically of the industria, with predominio of the metalurgico branch. I deal it and the lenders of jobs present good performance, with otimas perpectivas of development. The network of agua and sewer has covered 98% of the residencias and the public illumination arrives for 90% of the houses of the municipio, without speaking in the residential illumination that reaches 96% of the local population more than. The GIP of the Region this around U$$ 7 Billion and the GIP of Sorocaba around U$$ 3 Billion.