Campinas Region Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
metropolitan area in Brazil
About Campinas Region
There is hardly a region of the state of São Paulo that represents its prosperity better than the Campinas region. The real development of the region started in the nineteenth century, with coffee plantations based on European immigrant labor. The coffee farming era left, as a legacy, a formidable network of railways, which would be the basis of the region's industrialization and populational growth beginning in the 1940s. The region's most evident sign of economical strength is the Campinas metro area, a 2.8 million metropolis that stretches along the Anhanguera and Bandeirantes motorways. UnlikeGrande São Paulo, where the metropolis' economical power is highly concentrated in a small number of cities, the various cities that form the Campinas metro area compete evenly in economic develop
Campinas Region Travel Guide Sections
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