Maps of the Brazil Sao Paulo North mission
I've frequently been asked to provide some maps of the mission so that the families of missionaries could track where their missionary is serving. Prospective missionaries also want to know what areas in Sao Paulo the mission covers. This has proven to be a hard task for two major reasons: (1) I never knew the boundaries of the mission when I was there. I never saw a definitive map. (2) I've been home for more than seven years. This means that I don't remember clearly what I knew when I was there, and it also means that things may have changed in the ensuing time.
Regardless of these difficulties, I've tried to compile this page as a resource for those who are still interested. I've tried to compile this information from what I remember about the city. If you find something that is wrong, please let me know, and I'll try to update it. Specifically, if you see that I'm missing (or giving incomplete information about) a stake, let me know what the current / correct information is and I'll update the map.
I obtained these satelite images of MBSPN (Missao Brazil Sao Paulo Norte) from Google Earth (earth.google.com). If you are interested in looking up the city of Sao Paulo for yourself, you can use the following GPS coordinates, which are for the Sao Paulo temple grounds:
-23° 35' 07.59", -46° 43' 22.92"
(You can copy and paste the above line into Google Earth or another mapping program)
That is the same thing as:
23 degrees 35 minutes 07.59 seconds South
46 degrees 43 minutes 22.92 seconds West
How to view the maps:
On this page, I'll give you a small version of the picture; if you click the picture, a large version will open in a new window. You may need to disable pop-up blockers for this to work. Be aware that some of these images are quite large, both in length/width and file size. They may take some time to load, especially if you are a dial-up user. Some browsers will automatically scale the image to fit in your browser window. If you click on the image again, it will go to full-size.
Whole mission
 This is a picture of the whole mission. The borders of the mission are approximate. I have no idea where the borders between the other missions are, so I didn't even offer a guess. The resolution of this image should be sufficient to show you where the major cities in the mission are. When I was there the cities of Sorocaba and Itu were called the "interior" -- meaning not the capitol. There were some of the outlying cities (particularly to the north) that I believe were in our mission boundaries, but we didn't have missionaries there. That may have changed.
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Sao Paulo Temple area
 Here is a pretty zoomed-in image of the Sao Paulo Temple. On the map you can see the temple gardens, the stake center, the area offices for the Brazil South Area, and the Shopping Butanta (which I labled because it is the nearest mall to the mission office, and it is the nearest McDonalds. We ate there almost every time we went to the office). The mission home is very close to the temple. The other Sao Paulo missionaries are allowed to come to the temple, but their mission homes are a lot further away.
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Sao Paulo Stakes
I created this picture to help you locate your missionary's current location in the city. I can't include all of the areas--in fact, I'm even missing some of the stakes. However, when I was there, the areas roughly corresponded to wards. There was usually one set of missionaries per ward. Each stake was a zone. I don't know if the mission is still organized this way, so I am including the stakes on my map. You will have to ask your missionary to tell you what stake they are serving in, and then you can refer to this map to see about where they are.
This map is only for stakes in the city itself. If your missionary is serving in the interior, they can tell you what city they are serving in, and you can see where it is on the main mission map, above.
As with all the images, if you see information that is missing or wrong, please send me a note, and I'll update it. |
Brazil MTC
I don't have a picture of this one, but one user asked if I could provide GPS coordinates for the Brazilian MTC.
Since I served before North American-born missionaries were sent to the Brazilian MTC, I've never actually BEEN to the MTC in Brazil. However, I was able to use the MTC's address on a Brazilian maping page; I compared the resulting map to my Google Earth map of Sao Paulo, and I came up with the following coordiates for the Brazilian MTC. (As with all this information, if you find that it is incorrect, please let me know, and I'll fix it.)
Here, then, is my best guess at the coordinates for the Brazilian MTC:
23 degrees, 30 minutes, 34.61 seconds South
46 degrees, 39 minutes, 39.39 seconds West
The Google Earth coordinates are: -23° 30' 34.61", -46° 39' 39.39" |
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