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Londrina is a city located in the northern region of the state of the Paraná
Paraná (state)

Paran? is one of the States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Southern Region, Brazil of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. Cut by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paran? has what is left of the araucarias forest, one of the most important subtropical forests of the world....
, Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, and is 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba
Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital city of the Brazilian Brazilian state of Paran? . The city has the largest population and also the largest economy in Southern Region, Brazil....
. Londrina exerts great influence on Paraná
Paraná (state)

Paran? is one of the States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Southern Region, Brazil of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. Cut by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paran? has what is left of the araucarias forest, one of the most important subtropical forests of the world....
 and south region
Southern Region, Brazil

The Southern Region of Brazil is one of the five administrative regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paran? , Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,300.8 km ?, being the smallest portion of the country....
. Londrina has approximately 500 thousand inhabitants, being the second largest city of Paraná and the third largest city of the South Region of Brazil.

The city has a population of 505.184 (estimation IBGE, 2008), 742,071 (metropolitan area, estimation IBGE, 2007).






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Londrina is a city located in the northern region of the state of the Paraná
Paraná (state)

Paran? is one of the States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Southern Region, Brazil of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. Cut by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paran? has what is left of the araucarias forest, one of the most important subtropical forests of the world....
, Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, and is 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba
Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital city of the Brazilian Brazilian state of Paran? . The city has the largest population and also the largest economy in Southern Region, Brazil....
. Londrina exerts great influence on Paraná
Paraná (state)

Paran? is one of the States of Brazil of Brazil, located in the Southern Region, Brazil of the country, bordering Paraguay and Argentina. Cut by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paran? has what is left of the araucarias forest, one of the most important subtropical forests of the world....
 and south region
Southern Region, Brazil

The Southern Region of Brazil is one of the five administrative regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paran? , Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,300.8 km ?, being the smallest portion of the country....
. Londrina has approximately 500 thousand inhabitants, being the second largest city of Paraná and the third largest city of the South Region of Brazil.

The city has a population of 505.184 (estimation IBGE, 2008), 742,071 (metropolitan area, estimation IBGE, 2007). It is a regional centre and is made up of commerce, services, agro-industries, and universities, including the State University of Londrina
Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Universidade Estadual de Londrina is one of the public universities of the Paran? , Brazil.UEL was created in 1970, being recognized officially by Federal Ordinance 69.234/71....
, UEL (Universidade Estadual de Londrina), which is famous for the quality of teaching and attracts students from all over the country.

Demography

Named after the British entrepeneurs who launched railroad stations in the region to ease the transportation of coffee grains from Northern Parana' and SO Sao Paulo states to the port of Santos, Londrina means "Little London" in Portuguese. The city's population consists of descendants of those settlers, Brazilians from other cities or states, Portuguese, English, Japanese, Italian, German, Polish, African, Spanish, Native, and Bulgarian Brazilians.

Color/RacePercentage
White
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
74,2%
Black
Black

Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflection light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light....
3,4%
Pardo
Pardo

In Brazil, the Pardos are a mixture of White Brazilians, Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous peoples in Brazil, varying from light to dark complexion, as used by the IBGE in censuses since 1950....
 (Brown
Brown

Brown, when used as a general term, is a color that is a dark yellow, orange , or red, of low luminance relative to lighter or white colored objects....
/Mixed race)		18.35%
Yellow
Yellow

Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, but does not significantly stimulate the S cone cells; that is, light with much red and green but not very much blue....
 (Asian
Asian people

Asian or Asiatic people is a demonym for people from Asia. However, the use of the term varies by country and person, often referring to people from a particular region or subregion of Asia....
)		3,59%
Indian
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 (Native American
Indigenous peoples in Brazil

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500....
)		0,24%
Fonte: Censo 2000

Climate


Economy

Agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
 continues to be a major economic activity for Londrina, although its importance has diminished in recent years. Agricultural activity was diversified beyond coffee
Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
, and today corn
Corn

Corn may refer to:...
, wheat
Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
, cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
, horticulture
Horticulture

'Horticulture' is the industry and science of plant cultivation. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, Crop , plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology....
, bean
Bean

Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genus of the Family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed.The whole young pods of bean plants, if picked before the pods ripen and dry, can be tender enough to eat whole, whether cooked or raw....
s, peanuts
Peanuts

Peanuts is a print syndication daily strip and Sunday strip comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 , continuing in reruns afterward....
, rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
, sugar cane, soy bean, and fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 plantations thrive due to the rich Northern Paraná/South Western São Paulo State "terra roxa" crimson soil. Although the city has increased its industrial park by adding weaving, textiles and agricultural factories, Londrina's main wealth continues to be agricultural production. Today, Londrina is also known for its commerce and service sectors. Moreover, real estate is another growing sector that has generated jobs and boosted even more the size of this city in Paraná.

It possesses one of the largest universities in the country, the State University of Londrina
Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Universidade Estadual de Londrina is one of the public universities of the Paran? , Brazil.UEL was created in 1970, being recognized officially by Federal Ordinance 69.234/71....
, as well as several private college
College

File:Government college for Women Dhoke Kala Khan.JPGCollege is a term most often used today to denote an education institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of collegialitys, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals....
s.

Education

Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools. But English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 and Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 are part of the official high school
High school

High school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term originated in Scotland and spread to the New World countries as the high prestige that the Scottish educational system had at the time led several countries to employ Scottish educators to develop the...
 curriculum.

Colleges and universities

  • Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
  • Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)
  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC-PR)
  • Universidade Norte do Paraná (UNOPAR)
  • Centro Universitário Filadéfia (UniFil)
  • Faculdade Pitágoras
  • and many others.


Metropolitan region of Londrina

Instituted by State Complementary Law 81 on 17 June 1998, the Metropolitan Region of Londrina includes the cities of Londrina, Cambé, Ibiporã, Sertanópolis, Bela Vista do Paraíso, Jataizinho, Rolândia, and Tamarana, totaling 750 thousand inhabitants.

The city

  • The Londrina name pays homage to the English
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
     capital London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     (Londres in Portuguese), since an English cotton company made the original investment to settle in this area.
  • The famous fertile land of the region, "terra roxa" (purple soil), has this name due to a corruption and attempt to translate into Portuguese the term “terra rossa” (red soil, in Italian), which Italian immigrants used to call it.
  • Located in Southern Brazil, Londrina is a somewhat humid city in subtropical zone, with historical extremes ranging from -10.7°C (1975) to 42.8°C (1998)
  • The fertility of the soil is said to have originated in the biggest volcanic lava spill of the planet, known as The Spill of Trapp, that to a large extent occurred in the Center-South region of Brazil.
  • The inhabitants of Northern Paraná state are often called “pé vermelho" (red foot) because of their dust bowl
    Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agriculture damage to United States and Canada prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 ....
    -like region.
  • During its golden era, together with the west bank of the Paraná River
    Paraná River

    This article is about the second-longest river in South America: For the shorter river in Goi?s, central Brazil, see Paran? RiverThe Paran? River is a river in south central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina over a course of some 2,570 kilometers ....
    , Londrina helped produce 60% of the coffee of the world.


Sports

The city's football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
 clubs include Londrina Esporte Clube
Londrina Esporte Clube

Londrina Esporte Clube, or Londrina as they are usually called, is a Brazilian Football League Teams from Londrina in Paran? , founded on April 5, 1956....
, founded in 1956, and the Associação Portuguesa Londrinense
Associação Portuguesa Londrinense

Associa??o Portuguesa Londrinense, usually known simply as Portuguesa, is a Brazilian Football League Teams from the city of Londrina, Paran? , founded on May 14, 1950....
 founded in 1950. They play at Café
Estádio do Café

The Est?dio Jacy Scaff, usually known as Est?dio do Caf?, is a football stadium inaugurated on August 22, 1976 in Londrina, Paran? , with a maximum capacity of approximately 45,000 people....
 stadium, a 45,000 spectator capacity stadium.

Inesul/Londrina, owned by INESUL - Instituto de Ensino Superior de Londrina, an higher education
Higher education

Higher education refers to a level of education that is provided by university, vocational university, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, Institute of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as Vocational school, trade schools and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications....
 institution, is a city's major basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 club and competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete
Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete

The Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete is the main basketball league in Brazil. The championship is organized by the Brazilian confederation, Brazilian Basketball Confederation....
.

Notable sons and daughters of Londrina

  • Flavia de Oliveira
    Flavia de Oliveira

    Flavia de Oliveira is a Brazilian Model who participated in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows. She has been in shows such as Dior, Victoria's Secret, Valentino SpA, Missoni, Elie Saab, and Chanel....
    , model
  • Giovane Élber
    Giovane Elber

    ?lber Giovane de Souza known as ?lber Giovane or just ?lber is a retired Brazilian association football striker. Elber is mostly referred to as Giov?ne Elber , which is a German variation of his Italian nickname il gi?vane Elber ....
    , football player
  • Rafinha, football player
  • Naldo
    Naldo

    Naldo can refer to:*Ronaldo Aparecido Rodrigues, Brazilian football defender*Ednaldo da Concei??o, Brazilian football striker*Naldo , a reggaeton producer...
    , football player
  • Michelle Alves
    Michelle Alves

    Michelle Alves is a Brazilian Model .She was born in Londrina, Paran? , Brazil, as the daughter of a lawyer and an engineer . Alves was a student in civil engineering at Brazil's Londrina State University prior to moving to S?o Paulo, where she pursued modeling....
    , model
  • Ivo Pessoa, singer
  • Gilberto Godoy
    Giba

    Gilberto Amaury de Godoy Filho, known as Giba is a Brazilian professional volleyball player.Giba is known for passing through many adversities in life - he had leukemia when he was a baby, injured his arm badly as a child and he was suspended for some time in 2002, after an doping test come out positive for marijuana....
     (Giba), volleyball player, considered by many to be one of the world's best volleyball players (Gold medalist in 2004 Olympics)
  • Rogério Romero
    Rogério Romero

    Rog?rio Aoki Romero is a former backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed at five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988....
    , swimming
    Swimming

    Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
    , swimmer


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