Valinhos
Sign in to saveValinhos () is a municipality (município) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the birthplace of Adoniran Barbosa. Valinhos is famous for its purple fig, the theme of its annual Fig Fest. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The population is 131,210 () in an area of . Its elevation is . Its name means 'little valleys' in Portuguese.
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Vinony's link graph records 445 inbound references to Valinhos, and connects out to Southeast Region, Brazil and Latin.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Municipalities in São Paulo (state).
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Key facts
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- Valinhos
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- Municipality of Valinhos
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- Municipality
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- SaoPaulo Municip Valinhos.svg
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- Location in São Paulo state
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- In libertate labor (Latin)
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- Country
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- Region
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- Southeast Brazil
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- State
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- Metropolitan Region
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- Campinas
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- PL
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- valinhense
- Population
- 67886
- Area
- 148.538
- Elevation
- 660
- Official website
- www.valinhos.sp.gov.br
- Image
- Praça Brasil 500 Anos.jpg
- Dialing code
- 19
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- Commons category
- Valinhos
- Human Development Index
- 0.819
- postal code
- 13270-000 até 13279-999
- inception
- 1953-12-30
- electorate
- 78291
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Valinhos () is a municipality (município) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the birthplace of Adoniran Barbosa. Valinhos is famous for its purple fig, the theme of its annual Fig Fest. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. The population is 131,210 () in an area of . Its elevation is . Its name means 'little valleys' in Portuguese.
== History == The city was founded on 2 December 1732 by Alexandre Simões Vieira. A passage between the villages of São Paulo and Jundiaí had been opened. The main economic foundation of the town in the 19th century was the production of coffee, figs and grapes. Later on, a railway was created to transport the products to the Port of Santos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valinhos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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