Ceará

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Basic data
Country Brazil
Capital Fortaleza
surface 148,894.8 km²
Residents 8,452,381 (2010)
density 57 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 BR-CE
politics
governor Camilo Santana (since 2015)
Political party PT
economy
GDP 126.054  million  R $
14.255  R $ per capita
(2014)

Coordinates: 5 ° 5 ′  S , 39 ° 39 ′  W

Ceará , officially Portuguese Estado de Ceará , is one of the 26 federal states of Brazil . It is located in the northeast of the country in the Região Nordeste and has the capital Fortaleza .

geography

Ceará borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north and northeast, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba to the east, Pernambuco to the south and Piauí to the west .

With a length of 573 km, Ceará has one of the longest coastlines in Brazil, with dunes , mangroves and the freshwater lagoons called Restinga predominate. This is followed by the caatinga in the hinterland , a semi-desert with thorn bush vegetation. The largest river is the Rio Jaguaribe with a length of more than 600 km, whose catchment area covers more than half of the national territory.

As of 2018, the total area was: 148,894.757 km², the population density in 2010 was 57 inhabitants / km².

Dunes in the Parque Nacional de Jericoacoara

The state is home to two national parks. Particularly noteworthy is the Parque Nacional de Jericoacoara , which has an area of ​​62.95 km². It was set up on September 23, 2002 to protect the unique shifting dune fields of Jericoacoara and Cruz , as well as their fauna and flora.

From the capital Fortaleza is 351 kilometers away the smallest national park in Brazil with 563 hectares, the national park Ubajara . It looks like a green island in the Caatinga semi-desert. The main attraction of this nature reserve is a stalactite cave .

government

In the 2014 elections in Brazil , agricultural engineer Camilo Sobreira de Santana des Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) was elected governor of the state with 2,314,796 (57.91%) votes in the second ballot . In the 2018 elections in Brazil, he was re-elected in the first ballot with 3,457,556 (79.96%) of the valid votes and took office on January 1, 2019.

population

According to the 2010 census, Ceará had 8,452,381 inhabitants. As of July 1, 2019, the population was estimated by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) at 9,132,078 inhabitants.

Cities

Fortaleza Beach

The largest cities by population are (as of 2010):

See also: List of municipalities in Ceará

history

There is a report by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón ( captain of the Niña caravel , from the fleet of Christopher Columbus ), who anchored in the bay of Jericoacoara in January 1500. But it remained unofficial at the time because of the Treaty of Tordesillas , because under the Treaty Spain had no claim to this area.

In 1649 the Dutch occupied the coast and built a fort called Schoonenborch in the area of ​​what is now the center of Fortaleza . Five years later the Portuguese drove the Dutch out of their Dutch Brazil and built a stone fortress called Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora .

Web links

Commons : Ceará  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c IBGE : Estados @ Ceará. Retrieved September 1, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ IBGE: Contas Regionais 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Camilo 13 (Governador). In: eleicoes2018.com. Eleições 2018, accessed April 10, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).