Atyb-aia

Atibaia lies in the hills north of São Paulo, on a route used by expeditions into the interior. Jerônimo de Camargo established a farm and a chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist here in 1665. Indigenous people brought from the interior by Father Mateus Nunes de Siqueira were settled in the area. A community grew around the chapel and the farms of the Atibaia valley.