Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Votorantim is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city lies in the Sorocaba Metropolitan Region and also belongs to the Paulista Macro Metropolitan Mesoregion and the Sorocaba Microregion. It lies west of the state capital, about 108 km from it. According to Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) figures for 2019, its population was 122,480 inhabitants, making it the 68th most populous municipality in the state of São Paulo and the fourth most populous city in the Sorocaba Metropolitan Region, behind only Sorocaba, Itu and Itapetininga. It covers an area of 183.998 km².
Its Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.767, considered high.
State Law No. 8,092 of 28 February 1964 separated the district of Votorantim from the municipality of Sorocaba and raised it to the status of a municipality. It is the largest cement producer in Brazil. It also enjoys a privileged geographic location, as it is conurbated with Sorocaba and therefore close to its road network, which connects it to major national and regional centers such as São Paulo and Campinas.
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