Jaguaribe
Municipality
Jaguaribe Mother Church, Jaguaribe, Brazil
Jaguaribe Mother Church, Jaguaribe, Brazil
Country Brazil
RegionNordeste
StateCeará
MesoregionJaguaribe
Population
 (2020 [1])
 • Total34,636
 • Density49/sq mi (18.8/km2)
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

Jaguaribe is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil.[2][3][4][5]

The municipality contains part of the reservoir of the Castanhão Dam, the largest in the state.[6]

Notable people

The English author Henry Koster (1793–1820) was a coffee planter at Jaguaribe.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ IBGE 2020
  2. ^ "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  3. ^ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  4. ^ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  5. ^ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  6. ^ Regis, Laís Belmino (8 March 2016), "A História do Açude Castanhão", Mar do Ceará (in Portuguese), retrieved 2017-02-22
  7. ^ 'Art. IV. Travels in Brazil By Henry Koster', review in The Quarterly Review dated January 1817, vol. XVI (London: John Murray, 1817), pp. 344–387

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