Salgueiro is a city in Pernambuco

Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. It's located in the mesoregion of Sertão

Sertão

In Portuguese, the word sertão first referred to the vast hinterlands of Asia that Lusitanian explorers encountered. In Brazil, the geographical term referred to backlands away from the Atlantic coastal regions where the Portuguese first settled in South America in the early sixteenth century...

 Pernambucano . Salgueiro has a total area of 1639.3 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 55.435 inhabitants in 2009 according with IBGE

IBGE

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE , is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil...

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It is the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salgueiro

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:...

, a suffragan see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife is an archdiocese located in the cities of Olinda and Recife in Brazil.-History:* 1614: Established as Territorial Prelature of Pernambuco from the Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos...

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Geography

• State - Pernambuco
  Pernambuco
  Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...
  
  
• Region - Sertão
  Sertão
  In Portuguese, the word sertão first referred to the vast hinterlands of Asia that Lusitanian explorers encountered. In Brazil, the geographical term referred to backlands away from the Atlantic coastal regions where the Portuguese first settled in South America in the early sixteenth century...
  
   Pernambucano
• Boundaries - Ceará (N); Belém de São Francisco
  Belém de São Francisco
  Belém de São Francisco is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 21.342 and the area is 1830.81 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco...
  
   (S), Verdejante
  Verdejante
  Verdejante is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 10.098 inhabitants and the total area is 476.03 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
  , Mirandiba
  Mirandiba
  Mirandiba is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 13.810 inhabitants and the total area is 809.26 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
   and Carnaubeira da Penha
  Carnaubeira da Penha
  Carnaubeira da Penha is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 498 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 12.451 inhabitants and the total area is 1010.17 km²...
  
    (E); Cabrobó
  Cabrobó
  Cabrobó is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 536 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 30.432 and the area is 1658.08 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco...
  
  , Terra Nova
  Terra Nova, Pernambuco
  Terra Nova is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 572 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 9.801 inhabitants and the total area is 360.86 km².-Geography:...
  
  , Serrita
  Serrita
  Serrita is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 18.958 inhabitants and the total area is 1603.6 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
   and Cedro
  Cedro, Pernambuco
  Cedro is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 10.784 and the area is 144.09 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
    (W)
• Area - 1639.3 sqkm
• Elevation - 420 m
• Hidrography - Terra Nova River
  Terra Nova River
  The Terra Nova River is a Canadian river in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.It drains an area in the centre of the island of Newfoundland, discharging into Bonavista Bay at Glovertown....
  
  
• Vegetation - Forest
  Forest
  A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...
  
   Subcaducifólia.
• Clima - Semi desertic, ( Sertão
  Sertão
  In Portuguese, the word sertão first referred to the vast hinterlands of Asia that Lusitanian explorers encountered. In Brazil, the geographical term referred to backlands away from the Atlantic coastal regions where the Portuguese first settled in South America in the early sixteenth century...
  
  ) - hot and dry
• Main road - BR 232
• Distance to Recife
  Recife
  Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...
  
   - 510 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Salgueiro are based in general commerce

Commerce

While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...

 and agribusiness

Agribusiness

In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term for the various businesses involved in food production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales....

, especially plantations of onions, cotton

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....

 and tomatoes; and creations of cattle

Cattle

Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius...

, goat

Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...

s, sheeps and pigs.

Economic Indicators

Population	GDP x(1000 R$).	GDP pc (R$)	PE Pernambuco Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...
55.435	236.166	4.442	0.39 %

Economy by Sector
2006

Primary sector	Secondary sector	Service sector
3.54 %	14.55 %	81.91 %

Health Indicators

HDI Human Development Index The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries... (2000)	Hospitals (2007)	Hospitals beds (2007)	Children's Mortality every 1000 (2005)
0.708	3	301	24.4