 The Metropolitan Region of Campinas (RMC) was created by state law 870, dated June 19, 2000, and currently is by 19 municipalities, being a ninth largest urban agglomeration in Brazil, with 2,798,477 inhabitants.It is one of the most important in the Brazilian Brazilian world and accounts for 2.7% of the national Gross Domestic Product and 7.83% of the gross domestic product of São Paulo, or about 77.7 billion reais per year.Under the sign of "Expanded Metropolitan Complex", which exceeds 29 million inhabitants, approximately 75 percent of the population of the entire state of São Paulo.