g of bamboo-knife (a kind of bamboo or
bamboo with its branches, cutting, knives were made), and is formed by the
composition of Takuara (bamboo, bamboo), KYSE (knife) and tyba (gathering,
meeting, abundance), referring to a huge bamboo thicket that existed in the
village at the time of its founding, bordering the rivers Tietê and Sling. The "i" looks like it's fixing an
arbitrary, ie not coming from Tupi , and perhaps motivated by the large amount of
toponyms formed by the word stone in Tupi, that is itá. In Itaquaquecetuba passes the imaginary line of the Tropic of
Capricorn .
