Ibimirim
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Ibimirim is a city 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...

. The population 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...

 was 29.018 inhabitants and the total area is 2033.59 km².

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 - Custódia
    Custódia
    Custódia is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 33.874 inhabitants and the total area is 1404.1 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...

     and Sertânia
    Sertânia
    Sertânia is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 35.914 inhabitants and the total area is 2421,51 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...

      (N); Inajá
    Inajá, Pernambuco
    Inajá is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 14.729 inhabitants and the total area is 1182.16 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...

     and Manari
    Manari, Pernambuco
    Manari is a city established in 1997 in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 18.093 and the area is 406.64 km²...

      (S); Tupanatinga
    Tupanatinga
    Tupanatinga is a city located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Located at 306 km away from Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco...

     (E); Floresta
    Floresta, Pernambuco
    Floresta is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Situated at latitude 08º36'04" South and at longitude 38º34'07" West, being to an altitude of 316 metres...

      (W).
  • Area - 2033.59 km²
  • Elevation - 401 m
  • Hidrography - Moxotó River
    Moxotó River
    The Moxotó River is a tributary of the São Francisco River in northeastern Brazil. The Moxotó originates on the Borborema Plateau in Pernambuco state, and flows southwest to join the São Francisco. The lower portion of the river forms the border between Pernambuco state to the west and Alagoas...

  • Vegetation - Caatinga
    Caatinga
    Caatinga is a type of vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation"...

      hiperxerófila
  • Clima - semi arid - (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
  • Annual average temperature - 24.7 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...

     - 331.6 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Ibimirim are based in commerce 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 creation of 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, pigs
PIGS
PIGS is a four letter acronym that can stand for:* PIGS , Phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis, class S, a human gene* PIGS , the economies of Portugal, Italy , Greece and Spain...

s, 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...

, donkeys, horses, chickens; and plantations of tomatoes, beans, mangoes and banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....

s.

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...

29.018 96.928 3.556 0.16 %

Economy by Sector
2006
Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector
23.45 % 7.91 % 68.64 %

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)
0.566 1 40 23.9
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