The City

The city is named after President Prudente de Morais, the first civilian national president. It has been considered a city that offers a good quality of life in the hinterlands. It has an infrastructure that can receive investments of any size. Agricultural business, commerce, a few industries, and four university institutions have been responsible for the economical life in the city. By the way, it is re-known as a center for the quarter-mile horse and a major center of the "nelore" cattle.

Aerial View	Cathedral of St. Sebastian
City Hall	Soccer Stadium

Education
Education, with over 130 educational establishments, from kindergarten to university, has been distinguished as an important component of the city cultural life. Unesp, a public university, plus the others private institutions count more than 20,000 students enrolled with more than 110 different undergraduate and graduate programs.

Unesp
Toledo	Unoeste	Uniesp

Transportation
Presidente Prudente is located in the western region of São Paulo state and it is connected to the main cities from other regions by state highways and airways.

Airport	Highway

Culture and Leisure
According to the magazine Exame, Presidente Prudente is among the 100 best cities to live and to invest in Brazil. For the moments of leisure the city offers "Parque do Povo" (the Park of the People), "Cidade da Criança" (the Child's City) and Sesc Thermas. Athletics has had great incentive in the city. The National Festival of Theater and the activities of the Popular Network of Culture play an important role to disseminate Presidente Prudente culture.

Child's City	Municipal Museum
Sesc Termas (recreation)	"People's Park"
Prudenshopping - Shopping Mall	Americanas - Shopping Mall

Generals Info

Generals Data

Demographic Info
The population as of 2004 was 206,000 and the total area is 563.62 km². The elevation is 475 m (1558.4 ft) above sea level.

The Campus

The University FCT-Unesp has established the Presidente Prudente campus in 1989, although its origin goes back to 1959 when it was started as a Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters. Nowadays, FCT-Unesp Presidente Prudente campus is one of the 25 university units which are distributed throughout São Paulo state.

Front 1	Front 2
Garden 1	Garden 2
Library (reading room)	Library (searching room)
Amphitheater	Stadium
"Indoor" Soccer Field	Soccer Field

Its mission is to be an important unit of Unesp with recognized academic presence in the local, statual, national and international academic system, consistently based on strong connections among teaching, research and university extension, and also to accomplish its commitment with social, scientific, ethical, cultural and environmental issues. FCT offers undergraduate programs (courses) such as Geography, Mathematics, Cartographic Engineering, Statistics, Physical Education, Physiotherapy, Pedagogy, Computer Science, Environmental Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Architecture and Urbanism. It also offers stricto sensu graduate programs in Geography, Cartographic Sciences, Education, and Physiotherapy besides several lato sensu specialization courses in different areas.

Besides teaching, the faculty professors develop many researches and extension projects of intense relationship with the society. The existence of several agreements, the production of its laboratories, and the dedication of the staff make this unit a place of pleasant conviviality with great career opportunities and also an irradiation center of regional development.