how Brazil's CEP postal code works
A CEP identifies an address or a Correios delivery route, not a person. This page explains the 8-digit structure, why one long avenue can carry more than one CEP, and what changes between a P.O. box CEP and a generic city CEP, before you look up an address in the tool.
This CEP covers one specific stretch of Avenida Paulista; a different building number further down the same avenue falls under a different CEP, because the suffix follows the numbering range, not the whole street.
The leading digit 2 places this CEP in the Rio de Janeiro/Espírito Santo region, different from São Paulo's region 0; the leading digit already narrows the state down before the suffix comes into play.
The 000 suffix and the missing street in the response are the tell of a generic CEP: the whole town shares one single code because Correios has no registered street numbering for it.
Yes. In most cases the CEP can be entered as eight digits or in the standard hyphenated format. The important part is that the full number is provided correctly.
A generic CEP covers an entire town or a broad area with no registered street address, usually ending in -000; a street CEP points to a specific street or a stretch of it, with a neighborhood and sometimes a numbering range set by Correios.
Because the 3-digit suffix identifies a numbering range, not the whole street; long streets in capital cities get several CEPs along their length, one for each stretch that Correios sorts separately.
No. A P.O. box CEP is tied to the Correios branch that manages that box, not to the holder's physical address; looking it up returns the branch's data, not a home or a company address.
Not necessarily: the ten-region split groups more than one state under the same leading digit in several ranges, so two neighboring states can share the same first digit while the rest of the CEP separates the sub-regions.
See street, neighborhood, city, state and approximate location for any postal code.
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