Pirituba is a district in the subprefecture of Pirituba-Jaraguá in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

It borders the districts of Lapa, São Domingos, Freguesia do Ó, Brasilândia and Jaraguá.

[1] Pirituba's name origin is the juxtaposition of the Tupi language words piri (Southern cattail, a marshland plant of the Typha genus) and tuba ("many").

[2] In 1885, the São Paulo Railway opened a train station in Pirituba as part of the Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí line.

Those two settlements, together with the initial nucleus established by the train station, become the district's core for development.