Jaguaribe

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

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

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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