Leopoldina, Minas Gerais - Brasil

Leopoldina
- Municipality -
Cathedral of St. Sebastian.

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Location of the municipality in Minas Gerais
Coordinates: 21°31′55″S 42°38′34″W
Country Brazil
State Minas Gerais
Mesoregion Zona da Mata
Microregion Cataguases
Founded April 27, 1854
Government
• Prefect Benedito Rubens Renó Bené Guedes
Area
• Total 942.74 km (363.99 sq mi)
Elevation 225 m (738 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total 51,136
• Density 54/km (140/sq mi)
Time zone BRST (UTC−3)
• Summer (DST) BRDT (UTC−2)

Leopoldina is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2010, it has a population of 51,136.

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

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.