- Barão Geraldo
* [http://www.baraogeraldo.com.br/ Barão Geraldo] is a
district of themunicipality ofCampinas , in the state of São Paulo,Brazil . It is named afterBarão Geraldo de Rezende , abaron of theEmpire of Brazil who owned a largefarm in the region, in the 19th centuryFact|date=May 2007.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 theState University of Campinas (UNICAMP). The university campus is surrounded by typical suburban communities, the "Cidade Universitária Campineira", so named because many professors and a large number of students reside there; as well as by gated condominiums, such as "Rio das Pedras", and many old farms, such as "Pau D'Alho", "Santa Eudóxia", "Rio das Pedras" and "Santa Genebra". The University itself and the surrounding residential communities were built on a formercoffee andsugarcane plantationFact|date=May 2007.Near UNICAMP, the district hosts also a large high-tech industrial zone (with several companies, such as
Nortel ), two research and development institutions, the "Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento" (CPqD ), intelecommunication s andinformation technology , and the "Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron ". It is considered the main part of the so-calledBrazilian Silicon Valley . Barão Geraldo is also a majorhealth care destination in the state, with the large University Clinics Hospital, theCentro Médico de Campinas , theCentro Infantil Domingos A. Boldrini (a children's cancer hospital), and theCentro de Oncologia Campinas (acancer treatment polyclinic ).The district has a sub-mayor and has about 45,000 inhabitants living in 70 sectionsFact|date=May 2007.
External links
* [http://www.baraogeraldo.com.br/ Jornal - Barão Geraldo]
* [http://www.bgol.com.br/ Barão Geraldo On-Line]
* [http://www.baraoemfoco.com.br/barao/ Barão Em Foco]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
