Salgueiro is a city in

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 ...

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 ...

. It is located in the mesoregion of ''

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 ...

Pernambucano'' . Salgueiro covers an area of 1687 square kilometers and had in 2020 an estimated population of 61,249 inhabitants. It is the see city of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Salgueiro The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salgueiro is a diocese located in the city of Salgueiro in the Ecclesiastical province of Olinda e Recife in Brazil. History * 16 June 2010: Established as Diocese of Salgueiro from the Diocese of Floresta and Dio ...

, a suffragan see of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife ( la, Archidioecesis Olindensis et Recifensis) is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese in northeast Brazil's Pernambuco state. Special churches * Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is a World Herit ...

Geography

* State -

* Region -

Pernambucano * Boundaries - Ceará (N);

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(S),

Verdejante Verdejante is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2020, according with IBGE was 9,553 inhabitants and the total area is 476.03 km². Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - Sertão Pernambucano * Boundaries - Cear� ...

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and

Carnaubeira da Penha Carnaubeira da Penha is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 498 km away from the state's capital, Recife. History The unclassified extinct language ''Aticum'' or ''Araticum'' was spoken near Carnaubeira. Demographics The population i ...

(E); Cabrobó, Terra Nova, Serrita and Cedro (W) * Area - 1639.3 km² * Elevation - 420 m * Hydrography - Terra Nova River * Vegetation -

Forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

Subcaducifólia. * Climate - Semi desertic, (

) - hot and dry * Main road - BR 232 * Distance to

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- 510 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Salgueiro are based in general

commerce Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...

and agribusiness, especially plantations of onions,

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor pe ...

and tomatoes; and creations of

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 ma ...

goat The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a domesticated species of 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 member of the a ...

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 ...

and pigs.

Economic Indicators

Economy by Sector 2006

Health Indicators

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References

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