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3 unusual facts about São José dos Campos


Colégio Anglo Leonardo da Vinci

At that time, cursinhos were available primarily in São Paulo only, although Anglo was already establishing other units in São José dos Campos, Santos and Campinas.

Rudolf Komorek

Rudolf Komorek (born 11 October 1890 in Bielsko; died 11 December 1949 in São José dos Campos) was a Salesian missionary from Silesia.

Surra de Bunda

The Surra de Bunda is a dance invented by the group Tequileiras do Funk, from São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, which involves a female dancer "beating" her buttocks into a man's face.


Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).

Dimas Lara Barbosa

Born in Boa Esperança, Lara Barbosa was ordained to the priesthood on December 3, 1988, serving in São José dos Campos.

Environmental issues in Brazil

Some cities currently considering such projects are Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Bernardo do Campo and others.

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Now, the university has six campuses, the oldest in Vila Clementino, in São Paulo (Health) and four more in Guarulhos (Humanities area), Diadema (Science, Engineering and related), Santos (Health), São José dos Campos (computational area) and Osasco (Business and related).


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Dimas Lara Barbosa

Lara Barbosa received his episcopal consecration on the following August 2 from Eusébio Oscar Scheid, archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, with the bishop of São José dos Campos, José Nelson Westrupp, and the auxiliary bishop of Brasília, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, serving as co-consecrators.

Reformed Baptists

In Brazil there is a modest association, the Comunhão reformada batista do Brasil, sprung mostly from the work of US missionary Richard Denham at São José dos Campos, SP.

São José dos Campos Airport

8 July 1988: a Brazilian Air Force Embraer EMB 120RT Brasília registration FAB-2001 crashed during and engine-out landing at São José dos Campos.

9 July 1997: a TAM Airlines Fokker 100 registration PT-WHK operating flight 283 en route from São José dos Campos to São Paulo-Congonhas was climbing after take-off from São José dos Campos when a bomb exploded in the rear part of the passenger cabin.