Butantã
Butantã is a district of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is part of the homonymous subprefecture, located on the west bank of the Pinheiros River. The district hosts the main campus of the University of São Paulo.Photo: Hamilton Furtado, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 124,000 residents
- Description: District of São Paulo city
- Also known as: “Butanta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estádio do Morumbi and Subprefecture of Pinheiros.
Estádio do Morumbi
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, popularly known as Morumbi, and currently known as MorumBIS for sponsorship reasons, is a multipurpose 72,039-seater football stadium located in the eponymous district in São Paulo, Brazil. Estádio do Morumbi is situated 3½ km south of Butantã.
Subprefecture of Pinheiros
Town hall
Photo: Silvio Tanaka, CC BY 2.0.
The Subprefecture of Pinheiros is one of 32 subprefectures of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It comprises four districts: Pinheiros, Alto de Pinheiros, Itaim Bibi, and Jardim Paulista.
Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin
Library
Photo: Osmarst, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin is a library in São Paulo, Brazil. The library was created to hold the Brazilian collection gathered throughout eighty years by José Mindlin and his wife Guita, began in January 2005 for important works for understanding the culture and history of Brazil compose the collection donated to the University of São Paulo in 2006.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Side and Paulista.
West Side
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
If Downtown represents the past, no other region represents the São Paulo of the present as well as the West. Although it contains only 7.7% of the population of the city, it is by far the most economically active region, concentrating 28.5% of the jobs.
Paulista
Photo: sensechange, CC BY 2.0.
Crossing through different neighborhoods, districts and even regions, Avenida Paulista is the beating heart of São Paulo, where the culture, arts, food, politics, economics and shopping all clash together into an exciting straight line of intense activity.
Vila Sônia
Suburb
Vila Sônia is a district in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, it is the terminal of Line 4. Vila Sônia is situated 3½ km south of Butantã.
Butantã
- Categories: district of São Paulo and locality
- Location: Subprefecture of Butantã, São Paulo, Grande São Paulo, São Paulo, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-23.5694° or 23° 34′ 10″ southLongitude
-46.7278° or 46° 43′ 40″ westPopulation
124,000Elevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)Abbreviation
“BUT”Open location code
588MC7JC+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 4165851986OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Butantã” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “布坦唐”
- Dutch: “Butantã”
- French: “Butantã”
- German: “Butantã (Distrikt von São Paulo)”
- German: “Butantan”
- Japanese: “ブタンタン”
- Portuguese: “Butantã”
- Slovenian: “Butantã”
- Spanish: “Butantã”
- Turkish: “Butantã”
- “Butantã”
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