Hortolândia

Hortolândia is a Brazilian municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas and about 110 kilometres northwest of the state capital. It borders Sumaré to the north, Monte Mor to the south and west, and Campinas to the east. The municipality was created in 1991 by splitting from Sumaré, and its location near major industrial centres brought rapid demographic and industrial growth; it is considered a technopole with several high technology companies, including IBM, and had a municipal GDP of 12.9 billion reais in 2017. The place was once called Jacuba, a Tupi-Guarani word for hot water, and took the name Hortolândia in 1958. The 2022 census counted 236,641 residents.