Bataiporã is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the states of Brazil.Neighboring Brazilian states are Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. It also borders the countries of Paraguay and Bolivia to the west. The economy of the state is largely based on agriculture and cattle-raising...

. Its population was 12,288 (2005) and its area is 1,828 km². The town was founded by Jan Antonín Baťa

Jan Antonín Bata

Jan Antonín Baťa was a Czech shoe manufacturer from Uherské Hradiště , brother of Tomáš Baťa....

, the king of shoes.

The town has some residential developments, but it is surrounded by agricultural land. It is located south of Anaurilândia

Anaurilândia

Anaurilândia is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population was 8,384 and its area is 3,396 km². The town was founded by Jan Antonín Baťa, the king of shoes....

 at the junction of MS-395 the MS-134 (BR376), paved single lane highways.

Other towns in Brazil linked to Bata:

• Mariaopolis
• Bataguassu
  Bataguassu
  Bataguassu is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population was 19,171 and its area is 2,417 km². The town was founded by Jan Antonín Baťa, the king of shoes, in 1932....
  
  
• Batatuba
• Anaurilândia
  Anaurilândia
  Anaurilândia is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population was 8,384 and its area is 3,396 km². The town was founded by Jan Antonín Baťa, the king of shoes....
  
  

See also Batawa, Ontario

Batawa, Ontario

Batawa is a small community in South-Eastern Ontario, Canada. This planned hamlet was founded by Thomas J. Bata in the 1930s near the city of Trenton and is today part of the city of Quinte West. It is the site of the Bata Shoe Company's old shoe factory, which began operation in...

, Batanagar

Batanagar

Batanagar is a town in South 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It is one of the places named after the multinational shoe company Bata. There is a plant of the Bata company here...