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São José dos Campos

São José dos Campos is a major city and the seat of the municipality of the same name in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

São José dos Campos
São José dos Campos · Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

São José dos Campos is a major city and the seat of the municipality of the same name in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. One of the leading industrial and research centers with emphasis in aerospace sciences in Latin America, the city is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is the main city of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. A native of São José dos Campos is called a joseense. Being the second most populous non-capital city in Brazil – behind Campinas – São José dos Campos lies in the middle of the Expanded Metropolitan Complex, the first megalopolis in the Southern Hemisphere, with over thirty million inhabitants. The city's metro area also includes Greater São Paulo, Campinas, Santos and Sorocaba.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around São José dos Campos

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estádio ADC Parahyba

    Estádio ADC Parahyba is a multi-use stadium located in São José dos Campos, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Clube Atlético Joseense and Futebol Clube Primeira Camisa.

    1.7 km · multi-use stadium in São José dos Campos, Brazil · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Igreja da Cidade

    City Church is an evangelical multi-site megachurch based in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. It is affiliated with the Brazilian Baptist Convention and Baptist World Alliance.

    3.2 km · church building in São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Estádio Martins Pereira

    Estádio Municipal Dr. Mário Martins Pereira, usually known simply as Estádio Martins Pereira, is a football stadium in São José dos Campos, São Paulo state, Brazil.

    2 km · soccer stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Memorial Aeroespacial Brasileiro

    Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, s/nº (taking the access to the airport),.

  2. 02
    Capela Nossa Senhora Aparecida
  3. 03
    Espaço Mário Covas
  4. 04
    Banhado

    The "Banhado" is a huge depression and an environmental protection area located just west of downtown and north of Av.

  5. 05
    Sanatório Vicentina Aranha

    Prudente Meireles de Moraes, 302 - Vila Adyana, contato@pqvicentinaaranha.org.br.

  6. 06
    Igreja Matriz de São José dos Campos

    Located in the place of foundation of São José dos Campos.

From Wikivoyage: São José dos Campos, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Pico do Selado

    São Francisco Xavier (12 km by taking Estrada Municipal Ezequiel Graciano (dirt road)).

  2. 02
    Pedra Redonda
  3. 03
    Pedra Chapéu do Bispo

    São Francisco Xavier.

From Wikivoyage: São José dos Campos, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Churrascaria Aquarius do Vale, Rua Juiz David Barrilli, 376 - Jardim Aquarius. Rodízio churrascaria (all-you-can-eat BBQ restaurant). Villa Da Aldeia Churrascaria Av. São João, 282 – Jardim Esplanada Ii. Al Badah, Rua Serimbura, 15 - Jardim Maringá, Also at Vale Sul Shopping, Shopping Colinas; Restaurante Adissai Rua Santa Clara, 706 – Vila Adyanna; Restaurante Chinese House Av. São João, 171 – Jd. Nova América.

From Wikivoyage: São José dos Campos, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to São José dos Campos

Airports
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 66 km · Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 93 km · Viracopos (VCP), 129 km
Stations
São José dos Campos Airport, 5.8 km
  • São Paulo → São José dos Campos
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · R$26–34
    GuideToday
  • Campinas → São José dos Campos
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · R$42–55
    GuideToday
  • Rio De Janeiro → São José dos Campos
    278 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · R$95–125
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for São José dos Campos

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for São José dos Campos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

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  2. 02
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    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

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  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

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If you know how people move in São José dos Campos – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to São José dos Campos

São José dos Campos is 38 km from Taubaté, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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