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Bauru

Bauru is a Brazilian municipality located in the interior of São Paulo state, recognized as the most populous city in the Central-West region of São Paulo.

Bauru
Bauru · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Bauru is a Brazilian municipality located in the interior of São Paulo state, recognized as the most populous city in the Central-West region of São Paulo. It is one of the 19 municipalities comprising the Bauru Immediate Geographic Region, which is one of four immediate regions within the Bauru Intermediate Geographic Region, encompassing a total of 48 municipalities.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bauru

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estádio Alfredo de Castilho

    Estádio Alfredo de Castilho, known as Alfredo de Castilho or Alfredão, is a multi-use stadium in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches, and has a maximum capacity of 18,866 people.

    3.9 km · soccer stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Northwestern Brazil Central Station

    The Bauru Station is the starting point of the Estrada de Ferro Noroeste do Brasil. Opened in 1906, it consisted of a simple wooden building attached to the Bauru Station of the Sorocabana Railroad.

    2.1 km · Historical building listed by the CODEPAC-Bauru in the Brazilian city of Bauru, São Paulo · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Bauru Zoo (Jardim Zoológico de Bauru), Rod. Com. João Barros, Km 232.5 (9 km from the city center). Ecological Park (Parque Ecológico) (10 km from the city center). Preserving the local highland vegetation. Railroad Museum (Museu Ferroviário), Block 1 of Rua 1 de Agosto. History Museum (Museu Histórico), Block 13 of Rua Antonio Alves.

From Wikivoyage: Bauru, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Barraca Oba-Oba, Praça da Paz. Small stall selling churros. Fried Fish, Av. Getúlio Vargas, 2-50,. You may be able to guess what this popular shop specializes in. Skinão, Rua Rio Branco, 23-06 - Vila Samaritana (end of the street),. 11:00-01:00, closed Tuesdays. Serving authentic "Bauru" sandwiches.

From Wikivoyage: Bauru, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Bauru

Airports
Viracopos (VCP), 212 km · Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 286 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 293 km
Stations
Bauru Airport, 3.3 km
  • Campinas → Bauru
    216 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · R$70–95
  • São Paulo → Bauru
    284 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · R$90–120
  • Curitiba → Bauru
    347 km · quickest by road, 8h 20m · R$150–195
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bauru

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bauru. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    510 km
  2. 02
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,462 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,850 km
  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,964 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,136 km

If you know how people move in Bauru – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.