Clevelandia

Clevelandia is a Brazilian municipality within the nation of Parana. The settlement of the Palmas fields dates returned to Paraguay, and gave rise to Clevelandia, in honor of the then President of the USA Grover Cleveland, arbiter of the frontier warfare among Brazil and Argentina for the territories protected by way of the Question of Palms. The municipality was created with the aid of Law No. 28 of June 28, 1892, has a place of 650,98 km² and a city vicinity of 11,644 km², at an altitude of 950 meters above sea level.

It changed into populated through descendants of Indians, Portuguese and later settlers from the state of Rio Grande do Sul and loggers from numerous states in Brazil. Hermogenes Carneiro Lobo, the first settler acknowledged, later came Colonel Manuel Ferreira Bello, Jose de Lima Pacheco. Its limits are to the north the municipality of Mangueirinha, south Santa Catarina Abelardo Luz and Sao Domingos, to the east with municipality of Palmas and West municipality of Mariopolis and Pato Branco. A big vicinity of native plant life with a predominance of Parana Pine araucaria, besides geographical injuries rivers, waterfalls, mountains and islands they have as instance of the big island.