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Município de Vassouras Cidade dos barões Vassouras
City Council building
Vassouras
Coordinates	22 ° 24 ′  S , 43 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 22 ° 24 ′  S , 43 ° 40 ′  W
Location of Vassouras in the state of Rio de Janeiro
Symbols
coat of arms flag
Motto "Mihi maxime debetur Brasiliae incrementum"
founding	September 29, 1857
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Rio de Janeiro
Mesoregion	Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro (1989-2017)
Microregion	Vassouras (1989-2017)
structure	4 districts
height	434 m
Waters	Rio Paraíba do Sul
surface	535.6 km²
Residents	34,410 (2010)
density	64.2  Ew. / km²
estimate	36,896 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 330620
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	www.vassouras.rj.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Severino Ananias Dias Filho (2017–2020)
Political party	PPS
economy
GDP	963,683  thousand R $ 27,053  R $ per capita (2016)
HDI	0.714 (2010)
View of the main church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in the historic center

Vassouras , officially Portuguese Município de Vassouras , is a city in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro . It is located about 80 km northwest of Rio de Janeiro , the capital of the state. In a current area of ​​535.6 km ² (2018), previously 552.4 km ² , according to the 2010 census, 34,410 inhabitants, called Vassourens, lived. The population was estimated to be 36,896 as of July 1, 2019.

history

The name is derived from a tree species of the mallow family that is common in the area , which was called guaxima or vassourinha . The history of the place is closely connected with the cultivation of coffee in the Vale do Paraíba at the time of the province of Rio de Janeiro in the Brazilian Empire . The place was first elevated to Vila de Vassouras in 1833 and received the right to self-government on September 29, 1857.

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Panorama over Vassouras

Infrastructure

Vassouras is the seat of the Universidade Severino Sombra (USS).

Vassouras can be reached via the federal and state highways BR-393 , RJ-115 , RJ-121 , RJ 125 and RJ-127 .

The main branches of income are agriculture with gardening, pig and horse breeding, trade and tourism.

literature

• Stanley J. Stein: Vassouras, a Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986.

Web links

Commons : Vassouras  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website (Brazilian Portuguese)
• City Council website (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IBGE : Cidades @ Rio de Janeiro: Vassouras. Retrieved September 18, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
2. ↑ Vassouras - Interior do Rio de Janeiro ( Memento of July 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Prefeitura de Vassouras: Historia. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
4. ↑ IBGE : Cidades @ Rio de Janeiro: Vassouras - Histórico. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).