Cajueiro is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 21,331 (2020) and its area is 124 km².

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 ...

- Its name comes from the Portuguese for the

cashew The cashew tree (''Anacardium occidentale'') is a tropical evergreen tree native to South America in the genus ''Anacardium'' that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple accessory fruit. The tree can grow as tall as , but the dwarf cult ...

tree — in the 19th century, a village began to form around such a tree, near the banks of the Paraíba river.

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Municipalities in Alagoas {{Alagoas-geo-stub