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Assis is a city and a municipality in the southwestern part of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 101,597 (2015 est.) in an area of 460.61 km². The town was founded on July 5, 1905 and became a municipality in 1917, when it was separated from Platina. It is the largest city of its microregion, and the 2nd of its mesoregion, and is 434 km away from the capital, São Paulo. The town has an annual average temperature of 21,37 °C, annual rainfall , and the vegetation predominates Mata Atlântica and Cerrado, is then a transition zone of vegetation. Its Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.805, considered high if comparated to state and is in 28th place among Brazilian cities. The name Assis is a reference to Captain Assis, who explored the lands of the region. Is currently formed by the city of Assis, with its single district headquarters since Tarumã became a separate municipality in 1990.
The city is known for its title Fraternal City and the undergraduate courses from UNESP at Assis, FEMA (Municipal Assis Educational Foundation) and Unip (Universidade Paulista - Paulista University). In the city, there are many industries, schools, universities, large agriculture production and strong commerce and services. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Assis. Assis is one of the most important of region and has a privileged geographic location where there are different types of agriculture. Furthermore, the city is served by Marcelo Pires Halzhausen State Airport. Assis is cropped by the railroad old Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana and by numerous highways connecting the main cities of the region, the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná
Furthermore, the city is regional development reference, with influence in the cities of Assis's Microregion, a few municipalities in the Ourinhos's Microregion, Marília's Microregion and North of Paraná by his commerce, services, cultural services, sports, science and technology that make Assis that bears the title of Capital of Paranapanema, even with strong competition from larger centers such as Marilia, Presidente Prudente and Londrina.
Assis may refer to:
Places
- Assis Brasil, a Brazilian municipality in the state of Acre
- Assis (São Paulo), a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo
- São Francisco de Assis, Rio Grande do Sul, a Brazilian municipality
People
- Benedito de Assis da Silva, a former Brazilian footballer
- Cláudio Assis, Brazilian filmmaker
- Diego Assis, Brazilian football player
- Éder Aleixo de Assis, a former Brazilian footballer
- Francisco Assis, a Portuguese politician
- Fúlvio de Assis, Brazilian professional basketball player
- Gustavo Assis-Brasil, a Brazilian musician
- João Assis (1983-), Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, a Brazilian writer
- Maicon Assis, Brazilian footballer
- Nuno Assis, a Portuguese footballer
- Raymundo Damasceno Assis,
- Roberto de Assis Moreira, brother of footballer Ronaldinho
- Zezé Assis (1962–2007), was an Angolan basketball player,
Other
- Assis Chateaubriand (Paraná), a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil
- Prêmio Machado de Assis, a Brazilian literary prize
- Rodovia Assis Chateaubriand, a Brazilian highway
Usage examples of "assis".
Buloz assis par terre Lui fait de doux serments, Solange par derriere Gribouille ses romans.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, a work that self-consciously recollects the novels of Sterne but also anticipates twentieth-century novels.
Lucianic tradition includes, among others, Erasmus, More, Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, Diderot, Peacock, Jean Paul Richter, Machado de Assis, and such postmodern figures as Borges, Rushdie, and Kundera.
Les prisonniers assis contre la muraille lui firent une escorte de regards envieux.
A natural extension of this assis tance is to train law enforcement officers in, or at least acquaint them with, the application of behavioral science techniques to the investigation of violent crime.
Elle se leva, tandis que Roger restait assis, aneanti, ecrase par ces terribles revelations.
Gobain, of Assis, of Marie, of La Fere, of Folembray, of Montmirail, of Oisy, of Crevecoeur, of La Ferte-Aucoul and La Ferte-Gauche, Viscount of Meaux, Castellan de Cambrai.
Pendant assez longtemps il la promena en tournant devant la table ou madame de Barizel et Savine etaient restes assis puis, ayant releve les avirons, il laissa la barque descendre lentement le courant.
Andre Assis, Institute of Physics, Campinas, Brazil, for answering questions on his theoretical work deriving the gravitational force as an electrical effect.
Even if the strike force hadn't succeeded in killing Amadori, the general was going to have to allow medical assis- BALANCE OF POWER 405 tance into the palace.
As the accompt of the Assis ariseth, and coming at the last unto Usura ex asse, it amounteth to twelve in the hundred, and therefore the Latins call it Centesima, for that in the hundred month it doubleth the principal.