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Petrolândia
Petrolândia (''Petroland'', named in honour of Dom Pedro II) is a municipality in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. It is in the São Francisco Region. Petrolândia has a total area of 1056.6 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 36,901 inhabitants in 2020 according to the IBGE. It has one of the largest GDP per capita of Sertão due to the location of one hydroelectric power plant, property of CHESF. Languages The Kambiwá language, now extinct, was spoken in the village of Barreira in Petrolândia. Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - São Francisco Region * Boundaries - Floresta (N), Jatobá (S), Tacaratu (E) and Bahia state (W) * Area - 1056.6 km2 * Elevation - 282 m * Hydrography - Moxotó River, tributary of São Francisco River * Vegetation - Caatinga hiperxerofila * Climate - semi-arid hot * Annual average temperature - 25.7 c * Main road - BR 232, BR BR 110, BR 316 * Distance to Recife - 430 km Economy The main economic activities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kambiwá Language
Kambiwá ( Cambioá) is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil. A couple dozen words were collected by Wilbur Pickering during the 1960s from two people living in Barreira, Petrolândia, Pernambuco. However, by that time the language had become extinct. Classification Apart from two apparent borrowings, none of the words are relatable to known languages. Loukotka (1968) characterized the language as unclassifiable due to lack of data. Vocabulary In 1961, two word lists of Kambiwá were collected by Wilbur Pickering from elderly rememberers in Barreira, Petrolândia, Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a States of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it List of Brazilian states by population, sev .... The word lists are published in Meader (1978). Word list recorded from Manoel de Souza: : Word list recorded from an elderly man named Tenoro: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
