Seropédica (''Silk Farm'', , , ) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

located in

Greater Rio de Janeiro Greater Rio de Janeiro, officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (''Grande Rio'', officially ''Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro'', in Portuguese language, Portuguese) is a large metropolitan area located in Rio de Janeiro (sta ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, 75 km from the

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capital of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

. Its population was 83,092 (2020) and its area is 284 km².

Mayor

* Lucas Dutra

Education

The municipality is home of the main campus of the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and an

Embrapa The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa - pt, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária) is a state-owned research corporation affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture. Since its inception on April 26, 1973, it ha ...

research institute focused on

agroecology Agroecology (US: a-grō-ē-ˈkä-lə-jē) is an academic discipline that studies ecological processes applied to agricultural production systems. Bringing ecological principles to bear can suggest new management approaches in agroecosystems. The ...

Sports

* Annual Student Games

Neighborhoods

* Águas Lindas * Canto do Rio * Campo Lindo * Dom Bosco * Jardim das Acácias * Parque Jacimar * Piranema * INCRA * Ecologia * Fazenda Caxias * Centro de Seropédica * Boa Esperança * Multirão * Boa Fé * Santa Sofia * Jardim Maracanã * Vera Cruz * Vila Sônia * Belvedere * São Miguel * Nossa Senhora de Nazaré

Notability

The bacterium ''

Herbaspirillum seropedicae ''Herbaspirillum seropedicae'' is a betaproteobacteria which is an endophytic diazotroph and forms nitrogen-fixing associations with maize ('' Zea mays''), rice (''Oryza sativa''), sorghum ('' Sorghum bicolor''), sugar cane (''Saccharum officinar ...

'' is named after Seropédica, as it was isolated in the locality.

References

Municipalities in Rio de Janeiro (state) {{RiodeJaneiro-geo-stub