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São José dos Campos
São Paulo, Brazil · South America
About São José dos Campos
São José dos Campos sits on the route: 20 minutes from Jacareí.
São José dos Campos is in São Paulo, Brazil, with about 730,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Jacareí, about 16 km away.
São José dos Campos (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w ʒuˈzɛ dus ˈkɐ̃pus], Portuguese for 'Saint Joseph of the Fields') is a major city and the seat of the municipality of the same name in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. One of the leading industrial and research centers with emphasis in aerospace sciences in LatinRead more
America, the city is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country; São Paulo (80 km (50 mi) from the city) and Rio de Janeiro (320 km (200 mi)). It is the main city of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. A native of São José dos Campos is called a joseense (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒozɛˈẽsi]). Being the second most populous non-capital city in Brazil – behind Campinas – São José dos Campos lies in the middle of the Expanded Metropolitan Complex ("Complexo Metropolitano Expandido"), the first megalopolis in the Southern Hemisphere, with over thirty million inhabitants. The city's metro area also includes Greater São Paulo, Campinas, Santos and Sorocaba.
The municipality concentrates many major companies and industries, such as Embraer, Panasonic, Johnson & Johnson, Ericsson, Philips, General Motors, Petrobras, and Monsanto among others. São José dos Campos also holds relevant education and research institutions, such as ITA, INPE, CEMADEN, IEAv, IEA, IFI, UNESP, UNIFESP, DCTA, FATEC, UNIVAP and IP&D, holding a position that puts the city as the largest aerospatial complex in Latin America. The Technological park ("Parque Tecnológico de São José dos Campos"), the largest one in the country, is the only research institute in the world that includes all three top global plane production companies, Embraer, Boeing and Airbus.
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São José dos Campos is in São Paulo, Brazil, about 16 km from Jacareí.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 729,737
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- São Paulo
- Timezone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- Coordinates
- -23.1794, -45.8869
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