Londrina
Encyclopedia
Londrina is a city located in the northern region of the state of Paraná
, Brazil, and is 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba
. Londrina was originally founded by British settlers. The city exerts great influence on Paraná and Brazil's south region
. Londrina has approximately 500 thousand inhabitants, being the second largest city in Paraná and the third largest city in the Southern Region of Brazil.
The city has a population of 506,645 (IBGE Census 2010) and 1,087,815 in its metropolitan area. It is a regional centre and is made up of commerce, services, agro-industries, and universities, including the State University of Londrina
, or UEL.
states to the port of Santos. The Londrina name pays homage to the English capital London (Londres in Portuguese), since an English cotton company made the original investment to settle in this area. 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, Arabian and Bulgarian Brazilians.
Fonte: Censo 2000
Agriculture
continues to be Londrina's major economic activity, although its importance has diminished in recent years. Agricultural activity was diversified beyond coffee
, and today corn
, wheat
, cotton
, horticulture
, bean
s, peanuts
, rice
, sugar cane, soy bean, and fruit
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
, as well as several private college
s.
The city is served by Gov. José Richa Airport
.
-like region. 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. During its golden era, together with the west bank of the Paraná River
, Londrina helped produce 60% of the coffee of the world.
Portuguese
is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools. But English and Spanish are part of the official high school
curriculum.
, Ibiporã
, Sertanópolis
, Bela Vista do Paraíso
, Jataizinho
, Rolândia
, and Tamarana, totaling 750 thousand inhabitants.
clubs include Londrina Esporte Clube
, founded in 1956, and the Associação Portuguesa Londrinense
founded in 1950. They play at Café
stadium, a 45,000 spectator capacity stadium.
Inesul/Londrina, owned by INESUL - Instituto de Ensino Superior de Londrina, an higher education
institution, is a city's major basketball
club and competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete
.
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
, Brazil, and is 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
. Londrina was originally founded by British settlers. The city exerts great influence on Paraná and Brazil's south region
Southern Region, Brazil
The South Region of Brazil is one of the five regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,409.6 km ², being the smallest portion of the country...
. Londrina has approximately 500 thousand inhabitants, being the second largest city in Paraná and the third largest city in the Southern Region of Brazil.
The city has a population of 506,645 (IBGE Census 2010) and 1,087,815 in its metropolitan area. 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 State of Paraná, Brazil....
, or UEL.
Demography
Londrina was named after the British entrepreneurs who launched railroad stations in the region to ease the transportation of coffee grains from northern Paraná and southern São PauloSão Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
states to the port of Santos. The Londrina name pays homage to the English capital London (Londres in Portuguese), since an English cotton company made the original investment to settle in this area. 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, Arabian and Bulgarian Brazilians.
| Color/Race | Percentage |
|---|---|
| White White people White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin... |
74.2% |
| Pardo Pardo In Brazil, Pardo is a race/colour category used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in Brazilian censuses. It is a Portuguese word that encompasses various shades of brown, but is usually translated as "grayish-brown"... (Brown Brown Brown is a color term, denoting a range of composite colors produced by a mixture of orange, red, rose, or yellow with black or gray. The term is from Old English brún, in origin for any dusky or dark shade of color.... /Mixed race) |
18.3% |
| Asian Asian people Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :... |
3.6% |
| Black Black Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light... |
3.4% |
| Indian Indigenous peoples of the Americas The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans... (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 European invasion around 1500... ) |
0.3% |
Fonte: Censo 2000
Climate
Located in the Southern Brazil, Londrina is a somewhat humid city in the subtropical zone.Economy
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
continues to be Londrina's major economic activity, although its importance has diminished in recent years. Agricultural activity was diversified beyond coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
, and today corn
Maize
Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...
, wheat
Wheat
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
, cotton
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....
, horticulture
Horticulture
Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...
, bean
Bean
Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed....
s, peanuts
Peanuts
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American 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 the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...
, sugar cane, soy bean, and fruit
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
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 State of Paraná, Brazil....
, as well as several private college
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
s.
The city is served by Gov. José Richa Airport
Londrina Airport
Londrina – Gov. José Richa Airport is the airport serving Londrina, Brazil. It is named after José Richa , former Mayor of Londrina and Governor of Paraná.It is operated by Infraero.-History:...
.
Soil
The 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. The inhabitants of Northern Paraná state are often called "pé vermelho" (red foot) because of their dust bowlDust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936...
-like region. 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. During its golden era, together with the west bank of the Paraná River
Paraná River
The Paraná River is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina for some . It is second in length only to the Amazon River among South American rivers. The name Paraná is an abbreviation of the phrase "para rehe onáva", which comes from the Tupi language...
, Londrina helped produce 60% of the coffee of the world.
Education
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools. But English and Spanish are part of the official high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
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, CambéCambé
Cambé is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
, Ibiporã
Ibiporã
Ibiporã is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.- Toponymy :"Ibiporã" comes from the Tupi language and means "pretty land", from yby and porang .-References:...
, Sertanópolis
Sertanópolis
Sertanópolis is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
, Bela Vista do Paraíso
Bela Vista do Paraíso
Bela Vista do Paraíso is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. Bela Vista do Paraiso is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraná, belonging to the metropolitan area of Londrina...
, Jataizinho
Jataizinho
Jataizinho is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
, Rolândia
Rolândia
Rolândia is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
, and Tamarana, totaling 750 thousand inhabitants.
Sports
The city's footballFootball (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
clubs include Londrina Esporte Clube
Londrina Esporte Clube
Londrina Esporte Clube, or Londrina as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Londrina in Paraná, founded on April 5, 1956. The club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B in 1980, won the state championship three times, and competed several times in the Campeonato Brasileiro...
, founded in 1956, and the Associação Portuguesa Londrinense
Associação Portuguesa Londrinense
Associação Portuguesa Londrinense, usually known simply as Portuguesa Londrinense, is a Brazilian football team from the city of Londrina, Paraná state, founded on May 14, 1950.-History:...
founded in 1950. They play at Café
Estádio do Café
The Estádio Jacy Scaff, usually known as Estádio do Café, is a football stadium inaugurated on August 22, 1976 in Londrina, Paraná, with a maximum capacity of approximately 45,000 people. The stadium is owned by the City Hall of Londrina, and is the home ground of Londrina Esporte Clube and...
stadium, a 45,000 spectator capacity stadium.
Inesul/Londrina, owned by INESUL - Instituto de Ensino Superior de Londrina, an higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
institution, is a city's major basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
club and competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete
Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete was the main basketball league in Brazil. The championship was organized by the Brazilian confederation, CBB...
.
People
- Flavia de OliveiraFlavia de OliveiraFlavia de Oliveira is a Brazilian model who participated in the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows. She has been in shows such as Dior, Valentino, Missoni, Elie Saab, and Chanel...
, model - Giovane ÉlberGiovane ElberÉlber Giovane de Souza, simply Élber , is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a striker....
, footballer - Rafinha, footballer
- JadsonJádsonJádson Rodrigues da Silva , commonly known as Jádson, is an footballer who plays for Shaktar Donetsk and the Brazilian national football team.-Shakhtar Donetsk:...
, footballer - NaldoNaldoNaldo can refer to:*Ronaldo Aparecido Rodrigues, Brazilian football defender*Ednaldo da Conceição, Brazilian football striker*Naldo , a reggaeton producer...
, footballer - Michelle AlvesMichelle AlvesMichelle Alves is a Brazilian model.She was born in Londrina, Parana, 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 São Paulo, where she pursued modeling...
, model - Victor LazzariniVictor LazzariniVictor Lazzarini, born in Londrina, Brazil in 1969, is a composer and computer music researcher living in Ireland. After studying music in the local conservatory, Victor went on to study for his B.Mus. at the State University of Campinas , where he graduated in 1993...
, composer - Gilberto GodoyGibaGilberto Amauri de Godoy Filho, known as Giba , is a Brazilian professional volleyball player.-Biography:...
(Giba), volleyball player - Rogério RomeroRogério RomeroRogério Aoki Romero is a former backstroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed at five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. A resident of Belo Horizonte, he won the gold medal in the 200 m Backstroke at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba...
, swimmer