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Piracicaba

American  
[pee-rah-si-kah-bah] / ˌpi rɑ sɪˈkɑ bɑ /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, NW of São Paulo.


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The company that makes the brand says it is adding another shift at its factory in Piracicaba, Brazil.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2020

At $7.50 a person, which Technology Review magazine reported would be the price in Piracicaba, protecting a city of one million people would cost $7.5 million a year.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2016

In the months before the Zika outbreak in the Americas, a British company announced that it had conducted a successful trial in the Brazilian city of Piracicaba, cutting the number of mosquito larvae by 82%.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2016

In April, Oxitec began its “friendly Aedes aegypti program” in partnership with the city of Piracicaba, in southeast Brazil.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 1, 2016

In 1885 Evaristo Conrado Engelberg of Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, invented an improved coffee huller which, three years later, was patented in the United States.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)