Mauá
Mauá is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, in Brazil.
Mauá is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, in Brazil. It is part of the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The population as of 2020 is 477,552 inhabitants, the density is 7,500 per square kilometre (19,000/sq mi) and the area is 62.6 square kilometres (24.2 sq mi). The density is in fact bigger, since one third of the city is occupied by industries and 10% is countryside or forest. Its name comes from the Tupi language and means the one that is high. As it is a municipality, it can also be translated as high city. However, back when the city was a small village, its name was Pilar, then the name was changed in 1934 into Mauá as a homage to Visconde de Mauá, entrepreneur which built the Santos–Jundiaí railway that passes through the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Mauá
4 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.
- 01Estádio Bruno José Daniel
The Estádio Bruno José Daniel, sometimes called Brunão or Estádio Municipal Bruno José Daniel, is a football stadium in Santo André, São Paulo state. The stadium, which opened on December 14, 1969, has a maximum capacity of 18,000 people.
4.9 km · soccer stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia - 02Federal University of ABC
Federal University of ABC is a Brazilian federal public institution of higher learning based in Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, municipalities belonging to the ABC region, both in the state of São Paulo. UFABC is the only federal university in Brazil with 100% of its professors holding PhDs and, for the second consecutive year in 2011, emerged as the only university in Brazil with impact factor in scientific publications above the world average according to SCImago Institutions Rankings.
7.3 km · Public federal university located in the ABC region, São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia - 03Sabina School Knowledge Park
The Sabina School Park of Knowledge is a science museum in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil. Other planetaria in Greater São Paulo include Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium and Carmo Planetarium.
7.3 km · science museum · Wikipedia - 04Estádio Municipal Pedro Benedetti
The Estádio Municipal Pedro Benedetti is a football stadium in Mauá, São Paulo, Brazil. It is the home ground of Grêmio Mauaense and Mauá Futebol.
1 km · soccer stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mauá
- Airports
- Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 20 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 26 km · Viracopos (VCP), 101 km
- Stations
- Guapituba train station, 3 km · Capuava (CPTM), 3.2 km · Mauá (CPTM), 100 m · Pref. Celso Daniel-Santo André (CPTM), 7.1 km · Estação Prefeito Saladino, 8.4 km
- Campinas → Mauá105 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · R$34–46
- Rio De Janeiro → Mauá345 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · R$340–530
- Curitiba → Mauá345 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · R$390–600
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mauá
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 Mauá. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSenador Teotônio Vilela), and involves taking three ferry boats over the Billings Reservoir.
- Get inThe second ferry boat crosses the border between São Paulo and São Bernardo do Campo, and if you are going by bus, you need to go on this ferry boat on foot (although you may take another bus in the other side).
From Wikivoyage: São Bernardo do Campo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Mauá
Mauá is 8 km from Santo André, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Santo Andrémunicipality of São Paulo state, Brazil7 km
- Ribeirão Piresmunicipality of São Paulo state, Brazil6.8 km
- ABC Regionhuman settlement in Brazil8.2 km
- Subprefecture of São Mateusadministrative division of Sâo Paulo city5.9 km
- Capuavahuman settlement in Brazil4.4 km
- Subprefecture of Sapopembaadministrative division of Sâo Paulo city8.6 km