CAMPINAS, an inland city of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 65m. by rail north west of the city of Sao Paulo and 114m. from the port of Santos, with which it is connected by the Paulista and Sao Paulo railway. In 1926 the population of the city and municipality was 115,000. Campinas is the com mercial centre of one of the oldest coffee-producing districts of the State and the outlet for a rich and extensive agricultural region lying farther inland. The Mogyana railway starts from this point and extends north to Uberaba, Minas Geraes, while the Paulista lines extend north-west into new and very fertile regions. Coffee is the staple production, though Indian corn, mandioca and fruit are produced largely for local consumption. The city is built in a bowl-like depression of the great central plateau, and the drainage from the surrounding hillsides has pro duced a dangerously insanitary condition, from which one or two virulent fever epidemics have resulted.