History of Itaquaquecetuba

deserted since, in order of Fernão Dias , eager to have a greater control of the catechized Indians, most of its population moved to the village of San Miguel , closest to São Paulo , where it had been erected a new chapel. The population would start to grow only in 1624 , when Father John Alvares, builder of the Chapel of the Conception of Guarulhos and also from São Miguel, decided to stand on his property, located right next to the village of Itaquaquecetuba, an oratory in honor of Our Lady of Help that then would become chapel "that served the village core, bequeathing it, by his death, the Jesuit school" . This was the starting point of the village, who would soon settle around them, with the name, precisely, of Our Lady of the Conception of Itaquaquecetuba, thus recovering the toponym of the ancient settlement, elevated to parish by Act No. 17, of February 28, 1838.

The first census conducted in the Village of Our Lady of Help, in 1765 , showed the following results: 59 "iogos" that were inhabited by 109 women and 117 men. Little village that grew up in this state remained almost two hundred years. Was the inauguration of the Variant EFCB in 1925 that Itaquaquecetuba began to grow and to thrive  .

The name reduced to Itaquaquecetuba occurred only in the twentieth century, when it separated from Mogi das Cruzes , with his elevation to the municipality, and the territory of their district, by law No. 2456, of December 30 of 1953 , put into implementation on 1 January 1954 How municipality was constituted of a single district, the Itaquaquecetuba .

Strictly speaking, the toponym means gathering or