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Pompeia (before AO 1990 : Pompéia) is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil . The population is 22,172 (2020) within an area of 784 km. In 2000, its Human Development Index was 0.816.

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15-544: The region of Pompeia was originally inhabited by Kaingang natives, called Coroados ("Crowned") by the Portuguese colonizers . The first settlers arrived in 1852, when the Imperial Government granted João Antonio de Moraes, Francisco de Paula Morais and Francisco Rodrigues de Campos occupancy over the lands in the surroundings of Rio do Peixe and Aguapeí River (São Paulo) . In 1919, Júlio da Costa Barros purchased

30-442: A share of Guataporanga farm for agricultural purposes. In the following three years, the first Coffea plantations started to grow. Later on, abiding by a condition from Guataporanga Farm's landowner, Barros founded Vila de Novo Cravinhos, name given after Cravinhos , where the first customers of theirs came from. The clear-cutting nearby started along with the construction of former Noroeste do Brasil Railroad in order to link

45-524: Is a Brazilian telecommunications group, subsidiary of Spanish Telefónica . It was originally formed as part of Telebrás , the state-owned telecom monopoly at the time. In 1998, Telebrás was demerged and privatized . Telefónica bought Telesp , the São Paulo division, and rebranded it to Telefónica. The group has a participation of 15% in its revenues in the world and currently the company has more than 90 million customers. In 2010, Telefónica acquired

60-411: The cities of Bauru (São Paulo) and Corumbá ( Mato Grosso do Sul ). Jacutinga Farm was the first to arise in the environs. Its landowner Rodolfo Lara Campos acquired it in order to grown Coffea large-scale profit crops and started the deforestation of the region where later the city of Pompeia would be established. In 1928, Rodolfo and Luiz Miranda planned the foundation of a city and commanded

75-601: The city into a new hub for higher education. In 1948, the Jacto Group was founded in the city by Japanese immigrant Shunji Nishimura, who arrived in Brazil in 1932. Graduated at Kyoto City First Technical School  [ ja ] , Nishimura and his family developed agricultural fixing equipment which gradatively gained more popularity among farmers and agricultural families in the countryside of not only São Paulo but also other states of Brazil . The company has been one of

90-540: The city, mainly Pentecostal , including the Assemblies of God in Brazil (the largest evangelical church in the country), Christian Congregation in Brazil , among others. These denominations are growing more and more throughout Brazil. Kaingang The Kaingang people are an Indigenous Brazilian ethnic group spread out over the three southern Brazilian states of Paraná , Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and

105-400: The cutting of a 250 hectare area, which was named Patrimônio de Otomânia ("Otomânia's Patrimony) and after being divided into lots the first of those began to be sold. A few years later, Patrimônio was officially renamed Pompeia after senator Rodolfo Miranda's wife, Aretuza Pompeia. The municipality was created by state law in 1938. As several cities of the state of São Paulo, Pompeia

120-517: The land where they were born and their ancestors were buried. The Kaingang language is a member of the family. In November 2006 Brazil 's state-owned power company, Copel , agreed to compensate the group 6.5 million dollars for operating a small hydro plant in the Apucaraninha Reservation . The company finally gave in to a settlement after the natives carried two barrels full of fuel into

135-409: The plant's machine room and threatened to destroy the plant. This is part of a larger trend of indigenous groups challenging energy projects according to Platts . ^ Murdock, 1949. This article related to an ethnic group in Brazil is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Telecomunica%C3%A7%C3%B5es de S%C3%A3o Paulo Telefônica Brasil , trading as Vivo ,

150-513: The province of Misiones in Argentina. Their language and culture is quite distinct from the neighboring Guaraní . It has been stated that the Kaingang rarely live long in one place causing them to move a lot, but some sources, such as Juracilda Veiga and ethnographic registers (José Francisco Tomás do Nascimento 1886, Telêmaco Borba 1908 etc.), indicate that Kaingang groups have a crucial relation with

165-642: The shares of Vivo that belonged to Portugal Telecom, and transferred control of the company to Telefônica-Vivo, its subsidiary in Brazil. In 2012 the company's services began to be marketed under the Vivo brand, its services, such as internet access, cable and satellite television , fixed and mobile telecommunications , among others, were integrated in this brand, launched in 2003 for the Telefónica-Portugal Telecom mobile telecommunications joint venture. This Brazilian corporation or company article

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180-523: The southeastern state of São Paulo . Their population was around 51000 in 2022. Kaingang is spelled caingangue in Portuguese , and kanhgág in the Kaingang language . It is also sometimes rendered as Aaingang or Caingang . The Kaingang have sometimes been grouped with the Aweikoma ( Xokleng ), although they are now considered separate groups. The Kaingang people were the original first inhabitants of

195-670: The top earners of the city and a major revenue stream of the Midwestern state of São Paulo. The Nishimura family was also responsible for the Shunji Nishimura Foundation of Technology, created to provide farmers testing services to determine soil fertility and analyze plant tissues, as well as working on continuous technological improvement in rural areas . In telecommunications, the city was served by Companhia Telefônica Brasileira until 1973, when it began to be served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo . In July 1998, this company

210-464: Was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012. The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable). Christianity is present in the city as follows: The Catholic church in the municipality is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marília . The most diverse evangelical beliefs are present in

225-804: Was majorly populated by Portuguese, Italian and Japanese immigrants . The latter's culture even nowadays is still remarkable in traditional festivities and the architectural design of the city, e.g. many bus stops have roofs with eaves curved. Pompeia has become a reference in Education within the state of São Paulo and also in nationwide indicators. It was listed as one of the 500 cities that offer more educational opportunitites in Brazil. Since 2013, Shunji Nishimura Foundation of Technology has collaborated with Faculdade de Tecnologia offering graduation courses of Mechanization of Precision Agriculture and Big Data in Agribusiness , which has contributed to transform

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