Campo Largo, Paraná
Campo Largo | |
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| Municipality of Campo Largo | |
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Flag Seal | |
| Nickname: Capital da louça ("The porcelain capital") | |
Location in the Paraná | |
| Coordinates: 25°27′32″S 49°31′40″W / 25.45889°S 49.52778°W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Region | South |
| State | Paraná |
| Founded | April 2, 1870 |
| Incorporated | February 23, 1871 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Edson Basso (PSDB) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,243.552 km2 (480.138 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 956 m (3,136 ft) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 133,865 |
| • Density | 107.647/km2 (278.805/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
| CEP | 80000-000 to 82999-999 |
| Area code | +55 41 |
| HDI (2010) | 0.745 – high[3] |
| Website | campolargo |
Campo Largo is a municipality in Paraná, Brazil. The inhabitants are known in Brazil as campolarguense. It is also a near suburb of Curitiba. The town is best known for its large product of porcelain. It is headquarters to companies such as: 'Incepa', 'Porcelana Schmidt[4]', 'Germer', 'Lorenzetti'. 'Ouro Fino' mineral water also comes from this town.
According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) estimates from 2021, its population was 135,678, making it the 14th most populous city in Paraná and the 4th most populous in its microregion. The native inhabitants of the municipality of Campo Largo are called Campo-Larguenses (people from Campo Largo). The city of Campo Largo was separated from Curitiba in the 1870s. The municipality comprises the districts of Bateias, Três Córregos, São Silvestre, and Ferraria, and is subdivided into 147 neighborhoods, subdivisions, and residential areas. The etymology suggests that the name has a geographical origin and denotes the vastness of the region's horizons at the time of the municipality's founding, although its lands were then nothing more than a pine forest.[5][6]
History
The gold rush on Paraná in the middle of 16th century was the main reason to the first settlements which gives origin to the city. Gold extraction was followed by cattle and stop points to explorers on the way to São Paulo.
Colonization was made by the original Brazilian population of that time, mainly Portuguese and Africans, in combination with the recent immigration wave of European immigrants, mainly from Poland, Italy and Germany, which were attracted by the Brazilian government incentives and the temperate climate preferring to immigrate instead of continuing in a Europe devastated by poverty and religious prosecutions.
References
- ^ "Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics" (in Portuguese). 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
2018 Area Total
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
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- ^ cidades.ibge.gov.br https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/pr/campo-largo/panorama. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Sobre Campo Largo". Encontra Campo Largo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-09-09.
External links
- Campo Largo travel guide from Wikivoyage