

The Imperial Estrada do Taboado, which from Jaboticabal deepened through the high backlands, passing through Monte Alto, Vista Alegre do Alto, Palmares Paulista (former Cordão Escuro), Tabapuã and Rio Preto until reaching Porto do Taboado, on the Paraná River, was the main route penetration, at that time, absorbing all the commercial movement in the region. Still others opt for the name of Domingos Borges da Costa (known as “Minguta”), an elderly man who lived in the vicinity of the nascent village, on the edge of a stream, now called Minguta. Born in Conceição do Rio Verde, in the state of Minas Gerais, he would have acquired land in the Catanduva region, around 1850, and settled there in 1892, when he donated 10 bushels of his property to the patrimony of the Parish of São Domingos, baptized with the name, already mentioned, of Cerradinho because such lands are found in the Farm of São Domingos do Cerradinho.

The other story says that Antônio Maximiano Rodrigues founded the city.In 1889, Joaquim Figueiredo, his son, took possession of these lands and began cultivating them and building the first tile house. José Lourenço Dias Figueiredo, from Minas Gerais, had bought properties in 1850.To this day, no one knows who founded Catanduva, but two stories are believed, based on the fact that its first name was “Cerradinho”, a small village built on the banks of the São Domingos river. In 2011 it was the 39th most developed city in the country, according to the Firjan Municipal Development Index, published in 2014. Its economy is based on trade, services, diverse industries and agriculture. It is the 72nd municipality in population in the state of São Paulo and the 263 ° of Brazil. Its estimated population in 2020 was 122 497 inhabitants, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). It has an average altitude of 503 meters. Founded in 14 of April of 1918, it is located at a latitude 21 ° 8’16 ” south and a longitude 48 ° 58’22” west, 384 kilometers from the state capital. Osvaldo de Oliveira Rosa ( PSDB, 2021 – 2024)Ĭatanduva is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Novais, Embaúba, Paraíso, Palmares Paulista, Pindorama, Itajobi, Marapoama, Elisiário and Catiguá
