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Valinhos
Valinhos ((:vaˈliɲus)) is a municipality (''municipio'') 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.〔(Região Metropolitana de Campinas )〕 The population is 120,258 (2015 est.) in an area of 148.54 km².〔(Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística )〕 Its elevation is . Its name means 'little valleys' in Portuguese.
== History ==
The city was founded in 2 December of 1732 by Alexandre Simoes Vieira. A throughway between São Paulo and Valinhos passing through Jundiai had been opened. As known nowadays, Campinas region, was in the past a neighbourhood belonging to the city of Jundiai. The town of Valinhos was created with the goal of starting coffee, fig and grapes plantations. Later on, a railway was created to transport the products to the Santos’ seaport.
Since the fig has been the symbol of the city, they usually have the traditional Fig Fest which more than 75,000 people attend each year. The city is mainly composed by closed neighbourhoods, formed mostly by houses and without any tall buildings. There is also branch of the school Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro.
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