São José dos Campos is a municipality in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, located in the Vale do Paraíba.
It is considered the largest research center in high technology, automotive and telecommunications, war material, electronics, metallurgy and headquarters of the largest aerospace complex in Latin America.
Important multinationals such as Philips, Panasonic, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors (GM), Petrobras, Ericsson, Monsanto, the headquarters of Embraer, with the third longest runway in the world, among other companies, are installed in this town.
São José dos Campos has a total area of 1100 km² and an urban area of 673 km² (rep61.23%)
It has two administrative districts: São Francisco Xavier and Eugênio de Melo.
The City Park has an area of 516 thousand square meters. The symbol of the city, the Banhado, has an environmental protection area of five million square meters in front of the city center.
The Augusto Ruschi Ecological Reserve, with 2.5 million square meters, outside the urban perimeter, is an area of environmental protection for native species.
São Francisco Xavier, is a district of the municipality, which has defined half of its area (322 square kilometers) as the Serra da Mantiqueira Environmental Protection Area.
Santos Dumont Park is home to two Early Childhood Schools, a playground, a Japanese garden, a lake with breeding fish, birds, a cooper track, a skate park, a multipurpose court, and gymnastics equipment. The Park has about 46 thousand m².
The climate is humid and subtropical. The great precipitations occur from November to March contributing with 72% of the annual volume.
See more about the history of São José dos Campos
See also information on São Paulo.
