Londrina
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| State | Paraná |
| Area: | 1,724.7 km² |
| Population: | 500.000 (IBGE 2006) |
| Elevation: | 576m above sea level |
| Postcode (CEP): | 86000-000 |
| Geographic location: | 23°55′S 51°19′W / 23.917°S 51.317°W |
| Address of the local government: | Prefeitura do Município de Londrina Av. Duque de Caxias, 635 86015-901 |
| Website: | www.londrina.pr.gov.br |
| Contact: | governo@londrina.pr.gov.br |
Londrina is a city located in the northern region of the state of the Paraná, Brazil, and is the 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba. Londrina exerts great influence on Paraná and south region. Londrina has approximately 500 thousand inhabitants, being the second largest city of Paraná and the fourth largest city of the South Region of Brazil.
The city has a population of 495,696 (estimation IBGE, 2006), 739,195 (metropolitan area, estimation IBGE, 2005). It is a regional centre and is made up of commerce, services, agro-industries, and universities, including the State University of Londrina, UEL (Universidade Estadual de Londrina), which is famous for the quality of teaching and attracts students from all over the country.
Demography
The city's population consists mainly of Brazilians from other cities or states, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian descendants and Germans, as well as other groups in lesser scale: Polish, Spanish, aboriginal, Bulgarians, British and Africans.
Economy
Agriculture continues to be basic for Londrina, although its importance has diminished in recent years . The agricultural activity was diversified, and beyond in the coffee, today maize, wheat, cotton, rami, beans, peanut, rice, sugar cane-of-sugar, soy, fruits and hortaliças are stood. The industrial sector is not very expressive, even so the city has an increasing park that it deals with weaving, confections and agroindústria. Londrina if today detaches for the sector of commerce and rendering of services. She possesss one of the biggest universities of the country, the State University of Londrina, beyond other diverse private facultieses.
Metropolitan Region of Londrina
Instituted for State Complementary Law 81, of 17 of June of 1998, the Metropolitan Region of Londrina englobes the cities of Londrina, Cambé, Ibiporã, Sertanópolis, Bela Vista do Paraíso, Jataizinho, Rolândia and Tamarana, totalizing 750 thousand inhabitants.
The City
- The Londrina name is a homage to the English capital London (Londres in Portuguese), since the settlement was originated by the investment of an English cotton company.
- The famous fertile land of the region, the purple land, has this name in function of the Italian colonists who call-in the one of “land rossa” (red, in Italian).
- Located in Southern Brazil, Londrina is a somewhat humid city in Subtropical zone, with temperatures that can arrive until - 6,7º C(1975) until 47,4º C(1998)
- All the fertility of the purple land comes of the biggest volcanic lava spill of the planet, known as Spill of Trapp, that to a large extent occurred of the region center-south of Brazil
- Due to color of the land, the denomination of its inhabitants as “red-foots” ("pé vermelho" in Portuguese) is common.
- The region, in its golden period, together with part of the West of the Paraná, was once responsible for 60% of the coffee produced in the world.
Universities
- State University of Londrina Official homepage (in Portuguese)
- Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Londrina
- University of the Northern Paraná
- Metropolitan Iesb
- INESUL
- University Technologic of Paraná
- Uninorte
- South American teologic faculties
- UNIFIL
Sons and daughters of Londrina
Élber, Soccer Player
Michelle Alves, Model
Ivo Pessoa,Singer
Giba, Volleiball Player