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Campo Grande
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil · South America
About Campo Grande
Campo Grande sits on the route: 25 minutes from Terenos.
Campo Grande is in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with about 910,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Terenos, about 22 km away.
Campo Grande (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɐ̃pu ˈɡɾɐ̃dʒi], lit. 'Great Field') is a city in the central and western region of Brazil, capital and the largest city of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Historically a stronghold of separatists from the North and South, the city is planned in the middle of a vast green space,Read more
with wide streets and tree-lined avenues.
The region where the city is located was in the past a waypoint for travellers who wanted to go from São Paulo or Minas Gerais to northern Mato Grosso by land. In the early 1900s, a railway was completed, connecting Campo Grande to Corumbá on the Bolivian border and to Bauru, São Paulo. Also in the beginning of the 20th century, the Western Brazilian Army Headquarters was established in Campo Grande, making it an important military center.
With a population growth from 140,000 people in 1970 to 750,000 people in 2007, Campo Grande is the third largest urban center of the Center-West region, and the 17th largest city in the country. In 1977, the State of Mato Grosso was split into two, and Campo Grande became the capital of the new state of Mato Grosso do Sul, comprising the southern portion of the former state. By that time, Campo Grande had long surpassed the latter's capital city of Cuiabá in population, which is unusual in Brazil, where most capitals are also the states' largest cities.
Today, the city has its own culture, which is a mixture of several ethnic groups, most notably immigrants from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, Middle Easterners, Armenians, Portuguese people, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Paraguayans, finally mixed with Asian and European Brazilians from the Brazilian Southern and Southeast regions, its native Amerindian peoples and Afro-Brazilians.
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Campo Grande is in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, about 22 km from Terenos.
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- Population
- 906,092
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Timezone
- America/Campo_Grande
- Coordinates
- -20.4428, -54.6464
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