Name of city: Campinas.
Population : 1,098,630 (14th).
Area: 795.667 km2 (307.209 sq mi).
Location: Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil.
Website: Officialsite.
Campinas is a Brazilian municipality in São
Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2010
Census, the city's population is 1,080,999, making it the fourteenth most
populous Brazilian city and the third most populous municipality in São Paulo
state. The city's metropolitan area, Greater Campinas, contains nineteen
municipalities with a total population of 2,232,297 people.
The city was founded on July 14, 1774, by
Barreto Leme. It was initially a simple outpost on the way to Minas Gerais and
Goiás serving the "Bandeirantes" who were in search of precious
minerals and Indian slaves. In the first half of the 19th century, Campinas
became a growing population center, with many coffee, cotton and sugarcane
farms. The construction of a railway linking the city of São Paulo to Santos'
seaport, in 1867, was very important for its growth. In the second half of the
19th century, with the abolition of slavery, farming and industrialization
attracted many foreign immigrants to replace the lost manpower, mainly from
Italy.
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Coffee became an important export and the
city became wealthy. In consequence, a large service sector was established to
serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century,
Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters,
radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers (Correio Popular and
Diário do Povo), a good public education system (with the Escola Normal de
Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência), and hospitals, such as the Santa
Casa de Misericórdia (a charity for poor people).
Street
View of Campinas
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