Arapiraca is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

located in the center of the

Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

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 ...

, some from the state capital,

Maceió Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form la ...

. It was founded in 1924. , it has a population of 214.006,

IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística; IBGE) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information ...

– but IBGE estimated 233,047 inhabitants for 2020. Arapiraca is the second largest city in Alagoas, and is known mostly for its production of

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

, hence its nickname of "The Brazilian Tobacco Capital".

Neighboring municipalities

Clockwise from the north: * north:

Igaci Igaci is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. It has an area of 334.346 square kilometres (129.091 sq mi). The climate is tropical savanna climate. As of 2020 the estimated population was 25,613. Geography Igaci is in the state of A ...

* north-north-east:

Craíbas Craíbas is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 24,309 (2020) and its area is 275 km².IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografi ...

* north-east:

Coité do Nóia Coité do Noia is a municipality located in the center of the Brazilian state of 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) ...

* east:

Limoeiro de Anadia Limoeiro de Anadia is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 28,771 (2020) and its area is 316 km².IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatís ...

* south-east:

Junqueiro Junqueiro is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 24,722 (2020) and its area is 254.07 km².IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatíst ...

* south-south-east: São Sebastião * south:

Feira Grande Feira Grande is a municipality located in the western region of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 22,178 (2020) and its area is .IBGE The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( pt, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia ...

* south-west: Lagoa da Canoa

Sports

Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, commonly referred to as ASA de Arapiraca or ASA, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Arapiraca, Alagoas. It competes in the Série D, the fourth tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Ca ...

, better known as ASA, is the city's

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club. The club plays its home matches at the

Estádio Municipal Coaracy da Mata Fonseca Estádio Municipal Coaracy da Mata Fonseca, also known as Fumeirão, is a stadium in Arapiraca, Brazil. It has a capacity of 17,000 spectators. It is the home of Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C The Cam ...

References

Municipalities in Alagoas Populated places established in 1924 {{Alagoas-geo-stub