Terezinha
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Terezinha is a city located in the state of 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...

. Located at 251 km away from 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...

, capital of the state of Pernambuco. Has an estimated (Ibge 2009
IBGE
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE , is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil...

) population of 6.774 inhabitants.

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 – Agreste Pernambucano
    Agreste
    In Brazil, the agreste is a narrow zone in the states of Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia between the coastal forest zona da mata and the semiarid sertão...

  • Boundaries – Garanhuns
    Garanhuns
    Garanhuns is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Located in the Borborema Plateau, the town is known as the "Suíça Pernambucana" due to its pleasant weather during summer and low temperatures during winter, something rather unusual for the region...

     and Saloá
    Saloa
    Saloá is a city located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Located at 263 km away from Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco. Has an estimated population of 15.547 inhabitants.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco...

      (N); Bom Conselho
    Bom Conselho
    Bom Conselho is a city in northeastern Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco. It lies in the mesoregion of Agreste of Pernambuco and has 786.2 sq/km of total area.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Agreste of Pernambuco...

      (S and W); Brejão
    Brejão
    Brejão is a municipality/city in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. The population in 2009 was 9.780 and the total area is 159.79 km2.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Agreste of Pernambuco...

      (E).
  • Area – 151.45 km2
  • Elevation – 736 m
  • Hidrography – Ipanema River
    Ipanema River
    -References:*...

  • Vegetation – Subcaducifólia forest
  • Clima – Semi arid hot
  • Annual average temperature – 26.0 c
  • 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...

     – 251 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Terezinha are based in 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 beans, manioc, coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

; and livestock
Livestock
Livestock refers to one or more domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor. The term "livestock" as used in this article does not include poultry or farmed fish; however the inclusion of these, especially poultry, within the meaning...

 such as 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...

 and poultry
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of producing eggs, meat, and/or feathers. These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae , especially the order Galliformes and the family Anatidae , commonly known as "waterfowl"...

.

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...

6.774 20.266 3.120 0.034 %

Economy by Sector
2006
Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector
23.39 % 7.91 % 68.70 %

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) Childrens Mortality every 1000 (2005)
0.565 1 14 24.0
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