1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Brazil
Compare this sourced profile of São José do Rio Preto, Brazil before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for São José do Rio Preto—480,393, America/Sao_Paulo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: human settlement in Brazil.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind São José do Rio Preto is GeoNames ID 3448639. Its recorded administrative path is Sao Jose Do Rio Preto → Sao Paulo → Brazil, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. São José do Rio Preto occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-07-10; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, São José do Rio Preto ranks 1,195 by recorded population. Inside the 48 selected Brazil entries it ranks 47; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 197. Its 480,393 population value is 0.63 times the 758,563 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 816,326 regional median. São José do Rio Preto sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Brazil entries. São José do Rio Preto's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
São José do Rio Preto's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ribeirão Preto at 167.682 km with 698,642 recorded people; Uberlândia at 240.773 km with 754,954 recorded people; Londrina at 332.354 km with 581,382 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 164.672 km. Compared with Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto's recorded population is 0.69 times as large. Against São José do Rio Preto, Ribeirão Preto follows Ribeirao Preto → Sao Paulo → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above São José do Rio Preto's. Against São José do Rio Preto, Uberlândia follows Uberlandia → Minas Gerais → Brazil in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above São José do Rio Preto's. Against São José do Rio Preto, Londrina follows Londrina → Parana → Brazil in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Brazil cohort, uses the shared America/Sao_Paulo identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above São José do Rio Preto's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 921 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. São José do Rio Preto's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3448639, the coordinate pair 20.8197 / 49.3794, country rank 47 of 48, and neighbor GeoNames 3451328 at 167.682 km bind São José do Rio Preto to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
São José do Rio Preto's reference point is 20.8197° south and 49.3794° west. The IANA identifier America/Sao_Paulo is shared by 30 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. São José do Rio Preto's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. São José do Rio Preto's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. São José do Rio Preto's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for São José do Rio Preto, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
São José do Rio Preto's closest other entries in this atlas are Ribeirão Preto (167.682 km), Uberlândia (240.773 km), Londrina (332.354 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-10; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.