Map - Leopoldina, Minas Gerais (Leopoldina)

Leopoldina (Leopoldina)
Leopoldina is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. , it has a population of 52,640.

It is situated in the southeastern Zona da Mata mesoregion of the state.

The municipality contains the 368.7 ha Lapinha Biological Reserve, a strictly-protected area of Atlantic Forest.

Leopoldina was the site of a wave of immigration of Jews, mostly from Eastern Europe, in the 1920s and 1930s, as detailed in a book Jews of Leopoldina, published in 2007 by the Jewish Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leopoldina.

 
Map - Leopoldina (Leopoldina)
Country - Brazil
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