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Águas de São Pedro () is a Brazilian municipality of the state of São Paulo. It is the second smallest Brazilian municipality in territorial extension, with only 5.537 km²,〔 and had a population of 2,703 in 2010. Águas de São Pedro means "Waters of Saint Peter". Its name is derived from the mineral springs in its territory and their location, that before its foundation, were part of the municipality of São Pedro (São Pedro is the Portuguese for Saint Peter). The municipality is located in the region of Itaqueri Ridge ((ポルトガル語:Serra do Itaqueri); ''Itaqueri'' means "lying stone" in Tupí–Guaraní), south-central part of the state of São Paulo. ==History== Águas de São Pedro emerged when Octavio Moura Andrade discovered the medicinal properties from the mineral springs of the city around 1920, when the State Governor started researches in the area for oil prospection. The researches failed in the attempt to find oil and the rigs were abandoned, but still gushing out mineral water. Later other attempts had been made to find oil in great depths, and again no oil was found. One oil rig structure still remains nowadays and it's called "Engineer Ângelo Balloni Oil Tower". Years later, in 1934, an Italian immigrant and owner of the perforated lands, Ângelo Franzin, built a small bath house (currently known as "Youth Fountain") where he bathed himself. The water had a characteristic smell of sulphur. One year later a group of people of the roundnesses bought a lot of 100,000 m² around the bath house and built a health resort. It was twelve masonry bathtubs, in contrast with the first bath house, that was wooden. In the same year, Octavio Moura Andrade decided to build the spa, giving the name of to it and creating with his brother, Antonio Joaquim de Moura Andrade, the company ("Saint Peter Thermal and Sulphydric Waters S.A."). In four years the Technological Researches Institute of the University of São Paulo made analysis with the waters. The waters were considered good to bath and its medicinal properties had been confirmed. Recognizing the importance of the thermal waters, the São Paulo State Government founded on June 19, 1940 the (Hydromineral and Climatic Spa of Águas de São Pedro). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Águas de São Pedro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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