300px, Panoramic view of Barão Geraldo, taken from a hill overlooking UNICAMP Barão Geraldo () is a

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of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...

Campinas Campinas (, ''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 ...

, in the state of

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...

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. It is named after Barão Geraldo de Rezende, a

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of the

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who owned a large

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in the region, in the 19th century. Barão Geraldo is approximately from downtown Campinas and it is mainly connected to it via the Rodovia Campinas-Paulínia highway. Barão Geraldo is famous for hosting the main campus of the

State University of Campinas The State University of Campinas ( pt, Universidade Estadual de Campinas), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Unicamp is consistently ranked among the top universities in Brazil and Latin ...

(UNICAMP). The university campus is surrounded by typical suburban communities, the ''Cidade Universitária Campineira'', so named because many professors and a large number of students reside there; as well as by gated condominiums, such as ''Rio das Pedras'', ''Barao do Cafe'' and ''Santa Eudoxia'', and many old farms, such as ''Pau D'Alho'', ''Santa Eudóxia'', ''Rio das Pedras'' and ''Santa Genebra''. The University itself and the surrounding residential communities were built on a former

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and

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plantation. Barão Geraldo is one of the greenest districts of Campinas. It has several lakes and the Mata of Santa Genebra, a large preservation area where the original

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which covered the region in the past can be seen and is studied by the University. It still has a large diversity of plants and animals, including the

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and the spotted jaguars. Near UNICAMP, the district hosts also a large high-tech industrial zone (with several companies, such as

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); three research and development institutions; the ''

Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações CPQD is a Research and Development Center in Telecommunications and one of the largest Latin American R&D centers in Telecommunications and IT. Located in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, CPQD has operated as a contractor for institutions and enter ...

'' (CPqD), in

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s and

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; and the '' Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron'' and the Instituto Eldorado. It is considered the main part of the so-called

Brazilian Silicon Valley 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 US ...

. The expansion of its technological park has attracted other institutions, which are planned to settle in Barão Geraldo in the near future, such as the Technological Center of the Brazilian Army, the Research and Development Center of

Natura Natura & Co is a Brazilian global personal care cosmetics group headquartered in São Paulo. The Natura & Co Group currently includes Natura Cosméticos, Aesop, The Body Shop and Avon Products. The Group is present in 73 countries across all con ...

cosmetics company and others. Barão Geraldo is also a major

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destination in the state, with the large University Clinics Hospital, the Centro Médico de Campinas, the Centro Infantil Domingos A. Boldrini (a children's cancer hospital), and the Centro de Oncologia Campinas (a

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). The district has a sub-mayor and has about 45,000 inhabitants living in 70 sections.

References

External links

Portal Barão Geraldo

Barão Geraldo On-Line

Barão Em Foco
University of Campinas Geography of Campinas {{SaoPauloState-geo-stub