Jurumirim Lake
Water sports.
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Avaré is a city of about 93,000 people in inland São Paulo state, some 263 kilometres from the capital, officially classed as a «tourist resort» thanks to the broad reservoir of the Jurumirim dam, lined with river beaches, clubs and holiday homes. It was founded in the mid-nineteenth century by Major Vitoriano de Sousa Rocha and his friend Domiciano Santana, with 15 September 1861 taken as its founding date, after the pioneers came looking for fertile land and plentiful water. In the 1930s it was nicknamed the «national capital of cotton», and it remained a large coffee producer until the famous frost of 1975. Today visitors come for water sports, fishing and boating along the reservoir, including the waterside village of Barra Grande, as well as the cattle and citrus farms of its countryside. It makes an easy stop on the way between São Paulo, Botucatu and the interior.
Water sports.
A waterside village.
Farming history.
Avaré, central-west São Paulo state
About 263 kilometres.