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São Carlos is a city of 225,000 people in the Central region of the state of São Paulo in Brazil, named after Saint Charles Borromeo. It is about 231 km from the city of São Paulo and is known as the Capital of Technology.
São Carlos municipality is formed by São Carlos city and two districts: Água Vermelha and Santa Eudóxia. It is the 32nd most populated city in the state of São Paulo.
São Carlos (Saint Charles, in English, named after Saint Charles Borromeo) is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, 254 kilometers from the city of São Paulo. With a population of 254,484 inhabitants, it is the 13th largest city in the state in terms of the number of residents, being almost in the center of the state of São Paulo. The municipality is formed by the headquarters and the districts of Água Vermelha, Bela Vista São-Carlense, Santa Eudóxia, and Vila Nery.
The city is an important regional industrial center, with the economy based on industrial activities and farming, such as the production of sugar cane, orange, milk, and chicken. Served by road and rail systems, São Carlos houses several multinational companies. Given local and, in some ways, regional needs, there is a network of commerce and services distributed in street stores, convenience stores, and a mall of the Iguatemi network. In the field of research, besides the universities, two centers of technical development of Embrapa are present in the municipality. São Carlos is the first city in South America in the number of doctors per inhabitant, according to a survey done in 2006 by UFSCar. In all, there are 1,700 PhDs, which represents one for every 135 inhabitants. In Brazil, the ratio is one Ph.D. per 5423 inhabitants.
The city is home to several public higher education institutions, such as the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), two camps of the University of São Paulo (USP), the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP) and FATEC, as well as a private higher education institution. This makes intense the university activity in the city, which affects the population count. For this reason, São Carlos has a floating population of more than twenty-nine thousand graduates and graduate students, mostly from other cities and states.