Seropédica (Silk Farm, Portuguese pronunciation: [seɾoˈpɛdʒikɐ]) is a municipality located in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 75 km from the state capital of Rio de Janeiro.

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

[2] The municipality is home of the main campus of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and an Embrapa research institute focused on agroecology.

The bacterium Herbaspirillum seropedicae is named after Seropédica, as it was isolated in the locality.

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