Leblon | |
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| Coordinates:22°59′00″S43°13′33″W / 22.98333°S 43.22583°W /-22.98333; -43.22583 | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| State | Rio de Janeiro (RJ) |
| Municipality/City | Rio de Janeiro |
| Zone | South Zone |
| Administrative Region | Lagoa[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.15 km2 (0.83 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[2] | |
• Total | 46,044 |
Leblon (Portuguese pronunciation:[leˈblõ]) is a neighborhood ofRio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is also the name of the local beach. The neighborhood is located in theSouth Zone of the city, betweenLagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Morro Dois Irmãos and the Jardim de Alah channel, bordering theGávea,Ipanema,Lagoa, andVidigal neighborhoods. It is regarded as a very affluent area.
Leblon began as aquilombo of escaped slaves created by a Portuguese abolitionist landowner.
The neighborhood is named for Carlos Leblon, awhaling empresarioof French origin who possessed achácara in the region since 1845. Before the area was urbanized it was known asCampo do Leblon (Leblon's Field).
TheQuilombo of Leblon was a quilombo (settlement of escaped African slaves) that existed at the end of the 19th century in the present-day region ofClube Campestre da Guanabara and surroundings from what is now Rua Timothy Da Costa to Morro Dois Irmãos (in English "Two Brothers Hill") inRio de Janeiro.[3]
The creator of the quilombo was the PortugueseJosé de Seixas Magalhães,[4] who dedicated himself to the manufacture and trade of suitcases.[5] and pod bags on Rua Gonçalves Dias, at the center of the city. His bags were made in a factory withsteam engine. In addition to the luggage factory, Seixas also owned afarm in Leblon where he cultivated flowers with the help ofslaves fugitives. Seixas hid the fugitives in the Leblon farm with the help of the mainabolitionists from the capital ofEmpire, many of them members ofAbolitionist Confederation. The Seixas flower farm was known as the "quilombo Leblon", a name that referred to the former owner of the region, the Frenchman Carlos Leblon. It was in the Quilombo do Leblon that Seixas cultivated his famouscamellias, which were the symbol of the abolitionist movement.
The Quilombo do Leblon had the protection ofPrincess Isabel. As a token of gratitude, Seixas regularly supplied camellias toIsabel Palace, the princess’s residence in Laranjeiras (today, the seat of the government of theState of Rio de Janeiro). The camellias of Seixas adorned the Princess’s work table and her privatechapel, where she made her prayers. In addition to the camellias, Seixas also offered the golden penalty to the Princess Regent who, later, on 13 May 1888, would be used to sign theGolden Law. The quilombo gave rise to the current name of the neighborhood of Leblon.
The average nominal monthly income of people aged 10 or over (with income) in Leblon is R$6,844.63 (according to the 2010census by theBrazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). Leblon is one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in the city and the one that increases in value each year. It has the most expensive square meter in the country, costingR$18,332. In areas close to the beach, however, this value can reach R$20,000.[6]
It is located west ofIpanema. In the north, it is bordered byGávea and, in the west, by a towering hill called Dois Irmãos, which translates as "two brothers", because of its split peak.
Leblon is known for being a very wealthy and cosmopolitan neighborhood, with a lively nightlife across its bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Leblon has been either referenced or depicted in the following media:
In television:
In music:Leblon has been the subject of many songs, such as
In cinemain the 22 de march de 2011 the premiere internacional in the rio (2011) he was inLeblon, Rio de Janeiro.
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