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Buíque
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Buíque
Total population
52,097
Founded
1752
Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Buíque is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco, mesoregion of Agreste. It has an estimated population of 58,919 in a total area of 1345,1 km2. The Kapinawá Indigenous Reserve is located in the municipality of Buíque.
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History
The municipality of Buíque was settled in 1752, and was originally known as Campos de Buíque. Buíque became a village in 1854 and a city in 1874. The writer Graciliano Ramos grew up in Buíque. At age 18, Graciliano wrote to this mother: "This is as the devil likes it: one wakes up at five in the morning and spends the day reading, smoking, eating and praying; one sleeps at nine in the evening. The life of an angel."
Geography
It is located at latitude 08º37'23" south and longitude 37º09'21" west, 798 meters above sea level, and 278 km from Pernambuco's state capital, Recife. The Catimbau Valley or Vale do Catimbau in Portuguese, Brazil's second largest archeological site, is located in Buíque. Among its attractions are beautiful canyons, over 2,000 caves, and 28 registered areas with prehistoric cave paintings. The Brazilian federal government has listed the valley as a Unit of Integral Conservation and Preservation. * State – Pernambuco * Region – Agreste of Pernambuco * Boundaries – Arcoverde and Sertânia (N); Águas Belas (S); Pedra (E); Tupanatinga and Itaíba (W) * Area – 1345.1 km2 * Elevation – 798 m * Hydrography – Ipanema and Moxotó rivers * Vegetation – Subcaducifólia forest * Clima – semi-arid – hot and dry * Annual average temperature – 21.5 c * Distance to Recife – 278 km
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Books about Buíque
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 2602803
- UF
- PE
- Mesorregião
- Agreste Pernambucano
- Microrregião
- Vale do Ipanema
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • 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