Apucarana

The municipality covers 548 square kilometres (212 sq mi) at an elevation of 840 metres (2,760 ft) above mean sea level.João Busse Airport[2] which is located 10 kilometers (5 nautical miles) southeast of Apucarana.[3] In agriculture, the city stands in production of coffee, soy, beans and corn.The city received thousands of immigrants from Portugal, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and especially from Japan (who did strong influence in culture like in the Buddhist religion and the amount of cherry trees planted - the city has more than 20,000 sakuras and annually do the "Cherry Festival" to celebrate the Japanese culture[4]).source : PARDES 2010 The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apucarana.
Cherry blossom in Apucarana. The first hundred trees were planted by Japanese descendants in the 1980s. Today the city has more than 20.000 sakuras. [ 4 ]
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