Santiago de Chile

Santiago de Chile is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation (Greater Santiago). It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m (1,706.04 ft) above mean sea level. Although Santiago is the capital, legislative bodies meet in the coastal town of Valparaíso, a one-hour drive to the west.

Chile's steady economic growth has transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most modern metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping centers, and impressive high-rise architecture. It is an Alpha(-) World City and has a very modern transport infrastructure, including the steadily growing underground Santiago Metro, an effort at modernizing public bus transport and a free flow toll-based ring road and inner city highway system, part of which is tunneled underneath a large section of the city's main river Mapocho connecting the Eastern and Western extremes of the city in a 25-minute drive. Santiago is the regional headquarters to many multinationals, and a financial center. Santiago has a diverse, cosmopolitan culture. 

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Website: http://www.municipalidaddesantiago.cl/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_chile 

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Campinas: The City of Swallows

Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Campinas is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities.

The municipal area of Campinas covers 795.667 square kilometres (307.209 sq mi). Campinas' population is 1,080,999 as of the 2010 IBGE Census;[1] while over 98.3% live in the urban region. The city's metropolitan area, as of 2000, contains nineteen cities and has a total population of 2.8 million people.

It is the third largest city in the state, after São Paulo and Guarulhos.T he Viracopos International Airport connects Campinas with many Brazilian cities and also operates some international flights. The city is home to the State University of Campinas.

Campinas is located in the plateau (planalto, in Portuguese) of São Paulo, in the transition area to the Serra da Mantiqueira mountain range, and in the orogeographical basin of the Tiete river. It is 83 km north of the state capital São Paulo.

                  Campinas at Night is a Majestic City                      

Campinas means grass fields in Portuguese and refers to its characteristic landscape, which originally comprised large stretches of dense subtropical forests (mato grosso or thick woods in Portuguese), mainly along the many rivers, interspersed with gently rolling hills covered by low-lying vegetation.  Campinas was also known as "Cidade das Andorinhas" (City of Swallows), because it was a favorite spot for these migratory birds, which flocked annually in enormous numbers to downtown Campinas. However, they almost disappeared around the 1950s, probably because the church and plaza where they used to roost were torn down. Campinas' official crest and flag has a picture of the mythical bird, the phoenix, because it was practically reborn after a devastating epidemic of yellow fever in the 1800s, which killed more than 25% of the city's inhabitants.  An inhabitant of Campinas is called a campineiro.

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Website: http://www.campinas.sp.gov.br

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campinas,_Brazil

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Cidade das Andorinhas

Brazilian Silicon Valley

Princesa d'Oeste 

City of Swallows

San Luis Potosi: The City of Gardens

San Luis Potosi commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of, and most populous city in the Mexican state of the same name. The city lies at an elevation of 1,850 meters (6,070 feet). It has an estimated population of 735,886 inhabitants in the city proper, and a population of approximately 1,021,688 in its metropolitan area which is formed with the neighbor city of Soledad and some other small townships inside the urban area. This makes the metropolitan area of Greater San Luis Potosi he tenth largest in Mexico.
The city of San Luis Potosi is located in the west-central part of the state of San Luis Potosi at 22.16, 100.98. The municipality has an area of 1,443.14 km?(557.2 sq mi).

The city is named after Louis IX of France (also known in Mexico as San Luis Rey de Francia; Saint Louis, King of France), who is the city's patron saint. Potosi was added in reference to the fabulously rich mines of Potosi Bolivia, discovered some forty years before the city was founded, as the exploitation of silver and gold mines in Cerro de San Pedro near San Luis was the main reason for the founding of the city in 1592. Nowadays the city is one of the

Aerial View of San Luis Potosi

main industrial centres in central Mexico with a prolific manufacturing industry. A number of foreign industries have chosen to invest in San Luis Potosi in the last decades thanks to its strategic location for trade, as the city is located halfway Mexico City and the United

States border, as well as in the middle of the triangle formed by Mexico City and the other two largest cities in Mexico, Guadalajara and Monterrey.

Besides its industry-based economy, recently the city has been promoted as a touristic destination in central Mexico by state and federal programs. San Luis Potosi historic downtown displays a great mixture of different artistic styles in many buildings and it's a major example of colonial architecture in Mexico. In 2010 the historic center of the city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site within Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

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City Land Area: 385 square km.
City Population: 685,934 (Proper)
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luis_Potos%C3%AD,_San_Luis_Potos%C3%AD

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"La Ciudad de los Jardies (The City of Gardens)"

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