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Bezerros
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Bezerros
Total population
61,794
Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Bezerros is a municipality in northeastern Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco, near the city of Gravatá. Its population estimate was 65.007 (2025) and its area is 497,156 km2. Also known as Papangu city, because a festive tradition in which the people dress masks of all types during the Carnival festivities. During the carnival time, it is one of the most visited cities in the interior of the state. Also, it was a center of coffee production, an activity which is no longer important in the region. It is much visited during Carnival; tourists and locals love to see papangus parading in city streets.
History & geography
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 2601904
- UF
- PE
- Mesorregião
- Agreste Pernambucano
- Microrregião
- Vale do Ipojuca
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • IBGE — Brazilian national statistics, via servicodados.ibge.gov.br (official municipal code, UF, mesorregião, microrregião, region)
- • IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics — servicodados.ibge.gov.br