Cabrobó is a city in the
Brazil
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ian state of
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 ...
, 536 km away from the state's capital,
Recife
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. The city is located just to the north of a section of the
São Francisco River that contains many archipelagos.
History
The
Truká people had historically occupied the
Ilha da Assunção archipelago of the
São Francisco River in Cabrobó municipality.
Ponti, an extinct
Jê language belonging to the
Jeicó group, was once spoken on an island in the
São Francisco River near the city of Quebrobó (Cabrobó).
Geography
* State -
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 ...
* Region -
Pernambucan San Francisco
* Boundaries -
Terra Nova (N); Bahia state (S);
Salgueiro and
Belém de São Francisco
Belém de São Francisco (''Bethlehem of San Francisco'') is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2020, according with IBGE was 20,730 and the area is 1830.81 km².
Geography
* State - Pernambuco
* Region - São Fr ...
(E);
Orocó (W)
* Area - 1658.08 km²
* Elevation - 325 m
* Hydrography -
Terra Nova River
* Vegetation -
Caatinga
Caatinga (, ) is a type of semi-arid tropical vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in interior northeastern Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (''caa'' = forest, v ...
hiperxerófila.
* Climate -
Semi arid (
Sertão
The ''sertão'' (, plural ''sertões'') is the "hinterland" or "backcountry". In Brazil, it refers both to one of the four sub-regions of the Northeast Region of Brazil (similar to the specific association of " outback" with Australia in Englis ...
) hot and dry
* Annual average temperature - 26.2 c
* Distance to
Recife
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- 536 km
Economy
The main economic activities in Cabrobó are based in general commerce and
agribusiness, especially farming of
goat
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s,
sheep
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,
cattle
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,
pig
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s; and plantations of
onion
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s,
cannabis
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,
water melon
Watermelon (''Citrullus lanatus'') is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it is a highly cultivated fruit worldwide, with more than 1,000 vari ...
s and
rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...
.
Economic Indicators
Economy by Sector
2006
Health Indicators
PE State site - City by city profile
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References
Municipalities in Pernambuco
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