Leme

Leme is a municipality in the state of S?o Paulo in Brazil. It is located at , and as of 2000–2001,

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its area is 403.1 km² 1. According to the 2000 census,

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it has 80,757 residents, 40,830 of whom are men and 39,927 women. 65,885 residents are

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10 years old or older, and of these, 59,991, or 91.1%, are literate. 2

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The estimated population as of 2004 is 87,192. These figures give a population density

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of 200.3/km² as of 2000 and 216.3/km² as of 2004.

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Ruy de Souza Queiroz's farm in Leme has a garden, planted in 1999,

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where he keeps hundreds of species of Brazilian plants,

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some rare and some endangered.3

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Leme is also the name of a district on the south side of Rio de Janeiro, next to the Copacabana.

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