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Barão Geraldo District (Campinas)

Brazil / Sao Paulo / Paulinia / Campinas
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Barão Geraldo is a district of the municipality of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is named after Barão Geraldo de Rezende, a baron of the Empire of Brazil who owned a large farm in the region, in the 19th century.

Barão Geraldo is approximately 15 km (9.3 miles) 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 (UNICAMP). The district has a sub-mayor and has about 45,000 inhabitants living in 70 sections.
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Coordinates:   22°47'21"S   47°5'26"W
This article was last modified 16 years ago