São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil

Geography | History | Minority language | Education

🇧🇷 São Leopoldo is a Brazilian industrial city located in the south state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Geography It occupies a total area of 103.9 km² (around 80 km² urban area) at circa 30 km from the State Capital, Porto Alegre. The climate is sub-tropical, with temperatures varying from -2 °C minimum at Winter to more than 40 °C maximum during summer time. Summers are fairly dry.

History Established on July 25, 1824, by German immigrants, São Leopoldo is considered the cradle of German culture in Brazil, that is to say, it is the first official city designed by the national Brazilian governor to start the German plan of immigration in the country. It had, in 2006, a population of approximately 210,000.

São Leopoldo is one of the 13 cities along the Rota Romântica ('Romantic Route'), a touristic scenic route that runs from the State Capital towards the Serra Gaúcha.

Minority language Riograndenser Hunsrückisch German is a regional language in South America like Pennsylvania Deitsch is in North America. They are also similar because of their origin in the Rhine region of south-west Germany. As a Brazilian variant of European Moselle Franconian, it is also spoken beyond the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where for almost two hundred years it has been historically centered and where most of its 2 to 3 millions speakers live (there are speakers in neighboring southern Brazilian states, as well as in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay).

There are many other municipalities with this bilingual profile throughout the state and the German language is experiencing a strong revival: In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing the Hunsrückisch Germanic dialect of Rio Grande do Sul an official historical Intangible cultural heritage to be preserved.

Education The area had a German school, Instituto Preteologico. The city is the headquarters of Unisinos University.

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
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São Leopoldo has a population of over 238,600 people. São Leopoldo also forms one of the centres of the wider Rio Grande do Sul state which has a population of over 11,422,973 people. São Leopoldo is ranked #898 for startups with a score of 0.142.

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Antipodal to São Leopoldo is: 128.851,29.772

Locations Near: São Leopoldo -51.1494,-29.7718

🇧🇷 Sapucaia do Sul -51.146,-29.842 d: 7.8  

🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo -51.128,-29.683 d: 10.1  

🇧🇷 Campo Bom -51.05,-29.667 d: 15.1  

🇧🇷 Canoas -51.183,-29.915 d: 16.3  

🇧🇷 Cachoeirinha -51.083,-29.95 d: 20.8  

🇧🇷 Gravataí -50.983,-29.933 d: 24.1  

🇧🇷 Alvorada -51.079,-30.001 d: 26.3  

🇧🇷 Porto Alegre -51.229,-30.028 d: 29.5  

🇧🇷 Montenegro -51.45,-29.683 d: 30.6  

🇧🇷 Viamão -51.023,-30.088 d: 37.2  

Antipodal to: São Leopoldo 128.851,29.772

🇯🇵 Amami 129.483,28.367 d: 19847.2  

🇯🇵 Kagoshima 130.55,31.6 d: 19754.8  

🇯🇵 Satsumasendai 130.299,31.808 d: 19749.7  

🇯🇵 Kanoya 130.847,31.382 d: 19753.2  

🇯🇵 Izumi 130.36,32.073 d: 19721.5  

🇯🇵 Amakusa 130.197,32.456 d: 19690.3  

🇯🇵 Miyakonojō 131.079,31.809 d: 19704.3  

🇯🇵 Kobayashi 130.971,31.987 d: 19696.3  

🇯🇵 Nichinan 131.392,31.588 d: 19699.1  

🇯🇵 Nagasaki 129.867,32.76 d: 19669  

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