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Campinas

[ kam-pee-nuhs; Portuguese kahn-pee-nuhs ]

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, NNW of São Paulo.


Campinas

/ kæmˈpiːnəs; kəmˈpiːnəʃ /

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil, in São Paulo state: centre of a rich agricultural region, producing esp coffee. Pop: 2 640 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Branch offices are maintained at Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, and in other cities in coffee-growing countries.

The mountain-glens were filled with long droves of cattle and flocks of sheep from the campinas of Medina Sidonia.

The Bourbons grown in the Campinas district often have a red center.

The oldest coffee-growing district in São Paulo is Campinas.

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Campina Grandecamping ground