Cachoeirinha is a city located 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 ...

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 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. Located at 169 km away from

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, capital of the state of Pernambuco. Bandeira-de-Cachoeirinha-PE

Geography

* State -

* Region - Agreste Pernambucano * Boundaries -

Tacaimbó Tacaimbó is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - Agreste, Agreste Pernambucano * Boundaries - Brejo da Madre de Deus (N); Cachoeirinha, Pernambuco, Cachoeirinha (S); São Caitano (E); Belo ...

(N); Lajedo (S);

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and Ibirajuba (E);

São Bento do Una São Bento do Una is a city from the Northeastern Region of Brazil at the Pernambuco state. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE, it has an estimated population of 60,042 inhabitants (2020). It is located at latitu ...

(W). * Area - 179.27 km² * Elevation - 536 m * Hydrography -

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and Ipojuca rivers * 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 ...

Hipoxerófila * Climate -

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* Annual average temperature - 21.0 c * Distance to

- 169 km * Population - 20,501 (2020)

Economy

The main economic activities in Cachoeirinha are based in industry, commerce and

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

beans A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes th ...

corn Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

; and

livestock Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals ...

such as

cattle Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult mal ...

pigs The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus s ...

sheep Sheep or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus ''Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated s ...

goats The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a domesticated species of Caprinae, goat-antelope typically kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a membe ...

horses The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...

and

poultry Poultry () are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails, a ...

Economic indicators

Economy by Sector 2006

Health indicators

PE State site - City by city profile
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References

Municipalities in Pernambuco {{Pernambuco-geo-stub