Itatiba do Sul is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Coordinates: 27°23′13″S 52°27′10″W / 27.38694°S 52.45278°W / -27.38694; -52.45278

Coordinates: 23°00′21″S 46°50′20″W / 23.00583°S 46.83889°W / -23.00583; -46.83889 Itatiba is a county in the state of São Paulo in Brazil and distant approximately 70 km from the State Capital . The population in 2004 was 91,228 and the city has an area of 323.38 km². The average elevation is 750 m. The place's name comes from the Tupi Guarani language, and means "Many Rocks". It is considered to be the town with the 3rd highest levels of oxygen in the air in the whole world.^{[citation needed]} It used to be the furniture capital of Brazil.^{[citation needed]} Itatiba also has the biggest thematic zoo in Latin America, the "Zooparque". João Fattori is the current mayor in the city.

The city is also base of the famous country club and golf course Quinta da Baroneza.

Marco Aurélio Spall Maia, better known as Marco Maia (born 27 December 1965), is a Brazilian politician, and the current President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. He is on a third consecutive term as Federal Deputy for the state of Rio Grande do Sul. A metalworker and union leader by trade, Maia joined the Workers' Party in 1985.

Paulo Paim (born March 15, 1950) is a Brazilian steelworker turned politician. He served as a federal deputy from Rio Grande do Sul for the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) from 1987 to 2002. On 2002, he was elected Senator from the same state. Re-elected in 2010, he is currently the only Afro-Brazilian Senator. He also served as Vice-President of trade union center Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) from 1984 to 1986.

Paulo Renato Paim was born in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, on March 15, 1950. He became a trained steelworker after receiving a professional education degree from SENAI. Paim worked on Abramo Eberle and Forjasul metallurgical factories before becoming the president of the Canoas steelworkers trade union on 1981. Two years later, he became Secretary-General of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores, prior to becoming the Vice-President of that same organization on 1984.

On 1985, Paim became a member of the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) and, in the following year, became a federal deputy for the party. As a constituent deputy, he would engage in the writing of the current Constitution of Brazil. From 1989 to 1991, Paim was the deputy leader for the PT in the Chamber of Deputies. From 1993 to 1994, he was the head of the Chamber's Labour, Administration and Public Service committee. On 1997, he authored a bill which would be enacted by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the Elderly Statute, a set of laws which guarantees the rights of elderly people in Brazil. He became nationally known after the adoption of US$ 100 minimum wage, which he had proposed. Paim would later spark controversy, in 2001, after he ripped a copy of the Constitution as a protest to a bill seeking to change the Consolidation of Labor Laws.