Americana

Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).

Americana is a municipality in the Campinas Microregion, in the Campinas Mesoregion, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It lies northwest of the state capital, about 126 kilometres from it. It covers an area of 133.63 square kilometres, of which 50.75 square kilometres is within the urban perimeter, and the remaining 82.88 square kilometres make up the rural zone.

According to the 2022 Census (IBGE), its population was 237,240 inhabitants. Americana is part of the so-called “Expanded Metropolitan Complex”, which exceeds 29 million inhabitants and accounts for roughly 75 per cent of the state's population. The metropolitan regions of Campinas, São Paulo, Vale do Paraíba and Litoral Norte and Baixada Santista already form the first macrometropolis of the southern hemisphere.

It was populated mainly by Luso-Brazilians, enslaved Afro-Brazilians, American immigrants and, later, Italians as well, whose descendants, the Italo-Brazilians, came to form the largest ethnic group. There was considerable immigration of North Americans to that region, which became famous because of them. When the railway arrived, the station was called “Villa dos Americanos”, so prominent were the North Americans. The immigrants brought advances in agricultural activities and the development of the textile industry as the economic vocation of Americana, which, even today, remains an important source of income, along with other branches of industry and commerce.

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