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Franco da Rocha

Franco da Rocha is a city in the , . There is basically one reason to visit the city: the Hospital Psquiátrico Juqueri, a late-XIX century psychiatric complex with a quite disturbing history.
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  • Type: City with 145,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil
  • Also known as: “Franco Da Rocha”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Franco da Rocha and Baltazar Fidélis.

Railway station
Photo: Governo do Estado de São Paulo, CC BY 2.0.
is a train station on CPTM Line 7-Ruby, located in .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a train station on CPTM Line 7-Ruby, located in the district of Vila Bela in Franco da Rocha.

Stadium
Photo: Renato Patinhas, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Caieiras.

Town
Photo: RonanW, Public domain.
is a municipality in the state of in . It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 102,775 in an area of 97.64 km2.

Franco da Rocha

Latitude
-23.3328° or 23° 19′ 58″ south
Longitude
-46.7244° or 46° 43′ 28″ west
Population
145,000
Elevation
748 metres (2,454 feet)
Open location code
588MM78G+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246692132
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6322245
Wiki­data ID
Q657199
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Franco da Rocha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فرانكو دا روشا”
  • Basque: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রাঙ্কো দ্য রোচা”
  • Bishnupriya: “ফ্রানকো ডা রোচা”
  • Catalan: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Cebuano: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Chechen: “Франку-да-Роша”
  • Chinese: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Chinese: “弗朗库-达罗沙”
  • Danish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Dutch: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فرانكو دا روشا”
  • Esperanto: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Finnish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • French: “Franco da Rocha”
  • German: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Greek: “Φράνκο Ντα Ρότσα”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રાન્કો દા રોચા”
  • Hindi: “फ्रांको दा रोषा”
  • Hungarian: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Ido: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Indonesian: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Irish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Italian: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Japanese: “フランコ・ダ・ホーシャ”
  • Japanese: “フランコ・ダ・ロシャ”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರಾಂಕೊ ಡ ರೊಚಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Франку-да-Роша”
  • Korean: “프랑코 다 로차”
  • Latvian: “Franku da Roša”
  • Lithuanian: “Frankas de Rocha”
  • Malagasy: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Malay: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Marathi: “फ्रेंको दा रोचा”
  • Mazanderani: “فرانکو دا روشا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Norwegian: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Polish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Portuguese: “Fco. da Rocha”
  • Portuguese: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Romanian: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Russian: “Франку-да-Роша”
  • Scots: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්රැන්කෝ ඩා රොකා”
  • Spanish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Swedish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Tamil: “பிரான்கோ டா ரோச்சா”
  • Tatar: “Франку-ди-Роша”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రాంకో ద రోషా”
  • Thai: “ฟรังโก ดา ฮอชา”
  • Turkish: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Ukrainian: “Франку-да-Роша”
  • Urdu: “فران کو دا راچھا”
  • Uzbek: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Venetian: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Vietnamese: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Volapük: “Franco da Rocha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Franco da Rocha”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Franco da Rocha”. Photo: Felipelima14, Public domain.