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The name Indaiatuba is a mix of two terms originating from the Tupi-Guarani language: "Indaiá" stands for a kind of palm and "tuba" is the equivalmente for "a big amount of something". Therefore "Indaiatuba" means "many indaiás". The denomination attached itself on the environment's features as well as the place's vegetation, which today aren't the same as it used to be. Indaiatuba turned into a municipality in 1830, although it is told the city was born previously. The remarkable existence of the "indaiá" type of palms, loaded with tiny coconuts, were the reason for Indaiatuba to receive, at the end XVIII Century and the beginning of the XIX Century, the name of "Cocais" (Portuguese for "Coconuts"). The people who lived at first in the municipality would have firstly received the name of "Votura", designation of the river whose mouth was close to the village.