Cangaíba
district of São Paulo city
Cangaíba is one of 96 districts in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
Description
The district is situated on the east side of the Brazilian city of São Paulo, with 136.623 residents, according to the 2010 Census.
To the north, it borders the city of Guarulhos with the Parque Ecológico do Tietê(National Park of Tiete) — a busy part of the region due to the tourism to the park and one of the city's biggest highways Rodovia Ayrton Senna (Ayrton Senna Highway), main connection from São Paulo to the Paraíba Valley. To the east and south, Cangaíba borders the neighborhood of Penha, also to the south borders Ponte Rasa, and further east borders Ermelino Matarazzo, closing its path.
Etymology
The name "Cangaíba" comes from the tupi-guarani Cangaíva, from the junction of caa + nga + iva, where caa is forest, nga is place and iva is fruit, which translates to "place in the forest with many fruits".
“Cangaíba” enters the record as district of São Paulo city. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cangaíba, district and Paulo can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Cangaíba” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cangaíba, district and Paulo provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9694268. Authority coordinates are -23.496, -46.522. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cangaíba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.