Água Preta (''Black Water'') is a Brazilian municipality (city) in the state of

Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...

. It covers , and has a population of 37,082 with a population density of 62.05 inhabitants per square kilometer. Água Preta was founded as a district of the municipality of

Rio Formoso Rio Formoso (English: ''River Handsome''), is a municipality in Pernambuco with 23,628 inhabitants. Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - Zona da mata Pernambucana * Boundaries - Sirinhaém (N); Tamandaré (S); Gameleira (W); Tamandar ...

in 10 de novembro 1809. It became an independent municipality on July 3, 1895. The Praieira revolt (1848-1849), which originated

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, spread to Água Preta in its first year. Captain Pedro Ivo Veloso da Silveira (? - 1852) took refuge in the forests of Agua Preta after the defeat of his faction in Recife and organized a guerrilla resistance for two years before his surrender.

Geography

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* Region - Zona da mata Pernambucana * Boundaries - Ribeirão (N); Barreiros and

Alagoas Alagoas (, ) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. It ...

state (S); Palmares,

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and

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(W);

Tamandaré Tamandarë (Brazilian Portuguese: ''Tamandaré''; Old Tupi: ''Tamandûaré'', lit. "different") is a coastal municipality about south of Recife, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - ...

and

Gameleira Gameleira is a city in Pernambuco, Brazil. The name Gameleira is derived from the large number of Gameleira trees (family Moraceae) that were growing in the region. The city is 99 km away from Recife, the capital city of Pernambuco. Gameleir ...

(E) * Area - * Elevation - * Hydrography - Una and

Sirinhaém River The Sirinhaém River is a river of Pernambuco state in eastern Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 2 ...

s * Vegetation - Subperenifólia forest * Climate - hot, tropical, and humid * Annual average temperature - 25.2 c * Distance to the capital (

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Economy

The main economic activities in Água Preta are based in

agribusiness Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy, in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise. The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit w ...

, especially plantations of

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

and cattle-keeping. The city's other main economy is the

civil service The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

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