Welcome to Campinas!
Campinas is a city in São Paulo state, Brazil, and the core municipality of Grande Campinas, a metropolitan area with 2.8 million people, the second largest in the state after Grande São Paulo. Campinas is a major center of industry, services, and research, holding the 11th highest GDP in Brazil and being responsible for 15% of all scientific research of the country. The city is home to the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), considered (QS Ranking 2012) the second best university in the country and the third best in Latin America.
For a visitor, besides the obvious business/academic opportunities, Campinas offers the shopping, gastronomy, and nightlife typical of a large city, but with ease of access to the beautiful landscape and the scenic towns of the Mantiqueira mountain range. Campinas also hosts a considerable historical heritage from the late 19th century, associated with the prosperity of coffee farming during this period.
Campinas (Portuguese Plains or Meadows) is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian city and the third most populous municipality in São Paulo state. The city's metropolitan area, the Metropolitan Region of Campinas, contains twenty municipalities with a total population of 3,656,363 people.