The city's metropolitan area, the Greater Campinas, as of 2011, contains nineteen cities, including Campinas, and has a total population of 2, 832, 297 people.

Like other 13 municipalities in the metropolitan region of Campinas, the city suffers a severe environmental stress, and Campinas is considered one of the areas subject to flooding and silting and has less than 5 % of vegetation cover.

An airline that files services with the code VCP has flights displayed when passengers or travel agents request service from São Paulo, whereas flights filed with the code CPQ are displayed as service from Campinas, not São Paulo.

Campinas has gained this distinction because it has several comparable features, such as:

* It has a vibrant, high-tech university and research environment, composed of the University of Campinas ( UNICAMP ), the Pontificial Catholic University of Campinas ( PUCCAMP ), the UNISAL ( Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo ), the Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications ( CPqD ), the National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light, the Renato Archer Research Institute ( CenPRA ), the Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research ( EMBRAPA ), the Agronomical Institute of Campinas, the Biological Institute, the Food Technology Institute, the Eldorado Institute, the Werner von Braun Institute and several others.

* Limeira is inserted in the Campinas region, an area marked by a strong industrial concentration and has a GDP that is larger than many states in the country, such as Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, for example.

The LDS Church now also has 6 temples spread out across the nation, in Campinas, Curitiba, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, and São Paulo, with an additional temple under construction in Fortaleza.

In the state of São Paulo, the state government has sponsored a technology park program for several cities which have a strong high tech base, such as São Paulo City, Campinas, São José dos Campos and São Carlos.

Because of this Campinas has been dubbed the Brazilian Silicon Valley.

A heritage tramway has operated in Campinas, Brazil's Parque Portugal since 1972.

Bragança has become a commuter town due to its proximity to São Paulo and Campinas.

In the last few years it has outgrown Campinas.

The Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde ( Brazilian Society of Health Informatics in Portuguese, abbreviated as SBIS is a professional society created in November 1986 in Campinas, during the First Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics It has the mission of promoting the development and the interchange of ideas and results in the fields devoted to the information technologies applied to the health sciences ( Medical informatics, Telemedicine, Bioinformatics, etc.

The growing interest in GNH within Brazil has resulted from the work of Dr. Susan Andrews at the Instituto Visão Futuro which sponsored a series of events in São Paulo and Campinas in October 2008.

A film documentary, featuring Adriana Florence, a grand-grand-granddaughter of Hércules Florence living in Campinas, Brazil, has been made by the Discovery Channel and retraces part of the expedition's itinerary.

A film documentary, featuring Adriana Florence, a grand-grand-granddaughter of Hércules Florence living in Campinas, Brazil, has been made by the Discovery Channel and retraces part of the Baron von Langsdorff expedition's itinerary.

Currently it has an audited circulation of 48, 000 ( 66, 000 on Sundays ) and a market share of 76 % of all newspaper readership in Campinas ( which is the third city in the Brazilian ranking of absolute number of newspaper readers ).

League Division 2, and has previously played with Oita Trinita and Avispa Fukuoka in Japan and Ponte Preta in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

Apart from its main campus in São Paulo, Mackenzie University has campuses in the city of Barueri as well as in Brasília, Campinas, Recife, Rio de Janeiro for postgraduate and continuing education.

Campinas was also known as " Cidade das Andorinhas " ( City of Swallows ), because it was a favorite spot for these migratory birds, which flocked annually in enormous numbers to downtown Campinas.

Brazilian Silicon Valley is a term commonly applied to the region of Campinas and in southern region this term is applied for Florianópolis city, Brazil because of its similarity to the ' original ' Silicon Valley, located in California in the USA.

A Portuguese version, O desafio das linguas, was published in 2002 ( Campinas, São Paulo, Pontes ).

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 ) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas ( for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti ), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II.

Finally, the construction of the first Brazilian highway in 1938, between Campinas and São Paulo, the Anhanguera Highway, was a turning point in the integration of Campinas into the rest of the state.

Campinas was the birthplace of opera composer Carlos Gomes ( 1836 — 1896 ) and of the President of the Republic Campos Salles ( 1841 — 1913 ).

In August 2010, for example, the rainfall in Campinas was only 0 mm.

Goiânia The plan was for a city of 50, 000 with the shape of a concentric radius – streets in the form of a spoke, with the Praça Cívica as the center, with the seats of the state and municipal government – The Palace of Emeralds and the Palace of Campinas.

The club was managed by Zezé Moreira, who was the manager of Brazil at the World Cup in 1954, and won the Paulista Championship after beating Guarani 2 – 1 in the Campinas a week before the end of the competition.

He was born in Campinas, Brazil, son of Maestro Manuel José Gomes and Fabiana Maria Jaguari Cardoso.

When the Brazilian republic was proclaimed in 1889, Carlos Gomes, who at this time was in Campinas, sailed once more to Italy.

The largest congregation in the denomination as measured by average weekly attendance each Sunday morning ( as of February 2009 ) was the Central De Campinas church on the Paulista Sudeste district in Brazil, which reported 8, 216 members and an average weekly Sunday morning worship attendance of 7, 237.

* November 23 – Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 322, a de Havilland DH 106 Comet 4, strikes eucalyptus trees immediately after takeoff from Viracopos-Campinas International Airport in Campinas, Brazil, and crashes.

On returning to Brazil after the political amnesty in 1978, Serra lectured economics at the University of Campinas, did research for Cebrap, and wrote for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

Soon after the end of the expedition, in 1830, Florence married Maria Angélica de Vasconcellos, the daughter of his acquaintance and benefactor Francisco Álvares Machado, and went to live with her in the small city of Campinas ( then named the village of São Carlos ), in the province of São Paulo.

Soon after settling in Campinas, Hércules Florence began a prolific career as inventor and businessman.

In 2011, Dr. Santos was impeached from his position as mayor of Campinas, after a administrative process installed by the City Council, after accusations of fraud and money laundering.

Campinas means grass fields in Portuguese and refers to its characteristic landscape, which originally comprised large stretches of dense subtropical forests ( mato grosso or thick woods in Portuguese ), mainly along the many rivers, interspersed with gently rolling hills covered by low-lying vegetation.

In the region around Campinas near the state of Minas Gerais there are a number of cities which enjoy an even milder mountain climate, such as Serra Negra, Socorro, Lindóia and Águas de Lindóia, where several water spas are located.

The airport is located northwest of the capital city of São Paulo and southwest of Campinas, adjacent to the Bandeirantes-Anhanguera highway complex, which connects the capital city to the interior of São Paulo state.

Open fruit of the achiote tree ( Bixa orellana ), showing the seeds from which annatto is extracted ; photographed in Campinas, Brazil ( January 2009 ).

The Center for Research and Development ( CPqD ) set up by Telebras, a state holding for the telecommunications industry in Brazil, which had grown enormously under the military regime umbrella, was the second boost to Campinas Silicon Valley.

Dirceu Dalben as mayor with the health of gestational 1997-2004 became a reference in the RMCG ( Metropolitan Region of Campinas Gay ) and the City Mayor and the Chairman of the Metropolitan Gay Region of which became a reference and sustainable development in the state and country.

Despite belonging to the municipality of Campinas, the station was made to serve the estates in the municipality of Santa Bárbara d ' Oeste, which was further away and had no station of its own.

They compete in the SPHSL ( São Paulo High School League ) which comprises five schools: St Paul's School, Associação Escola Graduada de São Paulo ( Graded ), Escola Maria Imaculada ( Chapel School ), EAC Campinas ( American School of Campinas ), and Pan American Christian Academy.

In 1967, Lattes accepted a position of full professor with the new " Gleb Wataghin " Institute of Physics at the State University of Campinas ( Unicamp ), which he helped to found.

After retiring as professor emeritus from USP in 1968, Damy helped to consolidate the newly established State University of Campinas ( Unicamp ) and took over as director of the Institute of Physics, which received the name of his former professor, Gleb Wataghin.

It was founded in 1874, as a boy's private school by Sociedade Culto à Ciência, which members were partly of the Mason's Commission of the Campinas ' Justice Lodge " Independence ".

Correio Popular is owned and managed by a larger communications holding company, Rede Anhangüera de Comunicação ( RAC ), which operates a news agency ( AAN ), a printing facility ( Grafcorp ), a polls company ( Datacorp ) and owns also several other newspapers in Campinas, Piracicaba and Ribeirão Preto, such as Diário do Povo ( the second largest newspaper in Campinas, with a 20 % market share ), Gazeta do Cambuí, Gazeta de Piracicaba, Gazeta de Ribeirão and the Metrópole magazine, which circulates on Sundays with Correio Popular.