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5 unusual facts about Sorocaba


Clube Atlético Sorocaba

Clube Atlético Sorocaba, usually known as Atlético Sorocaba, is a Brazilian football club from Sorocaba.

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

The Marchioness' sister was made Baroness of Sorocaba and eventually she joined the extensive roll of royal mistresses, and bore a child with him.

Embraer EMB 202 Ipanema

During this time, the Ipanema aircraft was developed by engineers of the Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA) on the Ipanema Farm, located in Sorocaba.

Faculty of Medicine of Sorocaba

Hospital Santa Lucinda was donated to PUC-SP in 1950 by the then President of Votorantim Group (José de Moraes Ermírio) and years before the building by the State Government of Regional Hospital and Leonor Mendes de Barros Hospital (initially only for tuberculosis) in Sorocaba.

It is located in the city of Sorocaba (90 km from the capital) which has a population estimated by the IBGE (2009) of 584.313 inhabitants.


Clube Atlético Sorocaba

Atlético Sorocaba won the Copa Paulista de Futebol on November 29, 2008, after beating XV de Piracicaba in the final, at Estádio Barão de Serra Negra, Piracicaba, home of the opposing side.

Faculty of Medicine of Sorocaba

The PUC-SP is the 4th power of Brazil (behind the USP, UNIFESP and Santa Casa) with the largest number of alumni in today's clinical Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (over UNESP, Campinas, USP-Ribeirão), 27 are graduates of the PUC-Sorocaba (5% of 534 physicians HIAE).

Rodovia Raposo Tavares

The highway starts in the city of São Paulo and continues westward, serving the main cities of Cotia, Vargem Grande Paulista, São Roque, Sorocaba, Itapetininga, Angatuba, Ourinhos, Assis, Presidente Prudente, Presidente Bernardes, Presidente Venceslau and Presidente Epitácio, at the shores of the Paraná River, by the border with Mato Grosso do Sul.


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