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Piracicaba
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Piracicaba (pērəsēkä`bə), city (1996 pop. 302,605), São Paulo state, SE Brazil, on the Piracicaba River. It is the processing center of a rich agricultural region where sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, coffee, and many other products are grown; cachaça is distilled from sugarcane. The city houses a noted agricultural institute.
Piracicaba 

a city in southeastern Brazil, in the state of São Paulo. Population, 152,600 (1970). The city has a railroad station. An important center for ferrous metallurgy and machine building, Piracicaba has sugar-refining and fruit-canning enterprises. The city’s industries include textiles, chemicals, furniture, wood products, and pulp and paper products. Piracicaba was founded in 1767.



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The new plant (100 million gallons a year) would be supplied by Industrias Dedini de Base in Piracicaba, Brazil, he said.
95 Paperback S592 Soil scientists, agriculturalists, and other researchers, most from Latin America but others from North America and Europe, convened in Piracicaba, Brazil in June 2004 to share information on soil carbon dynamics under natural and managed eco-systems, the potential carbon sequestration and land-use and management options to realize that potential, and related matters.
In Piracicaba, Brazil, a natural waste treatment system that includes duckweed is used to purify polluted water and make it potable.
 
 
 
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