Bastos is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 20,953 (2020 est.) in an area of 172 km².^[2]

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Bastos
Municipality
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Location in São Paulo state
Bastos Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 21°55′19″S 50°43′55″W
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	São Paulo
Area
• Total	172 km2 (66 sq mi)
Highest elevation	445 m (1,460 ft)
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	20,953
• Density	120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

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The name originated from Henrique Bastos, who owned a farm in the area. And it was these same lands that the foundation of the city occurred on June 18, 1928, by Senjiro Hatanaka, sent by the Japanese government to look for land to receive the waves of Japanese immigrants.

After cycles of crops such as coffee, cotton, sericulture, from 1957, the council found its economic vocation: the laying poultry. The city has the largest flock of laying hens in the country and thus is the municipality with the highest production of eggs from Brazil, so the self-titling of "capital of the egg." Bastos is also the headquarters of the Brazilian city of the Egg Festival. This festival brings together not only an exhibition of innovations and products used in the poultry industry, as well as concerts and entertainment for the general population and the region of Bastos.

Source: 2000 census: