Orobó
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Orobó is a municipality/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...

 in 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 was 22.239 inhabitants and the total area is 140.78 km2. The city has the best children's mortality rate
Mortality rate
Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time...

 of the state (2.9) and one of the best in the whole country.

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
    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...

     of Pernambuco
  • Boundaries - Paraiba
    Paraíba
    Paraíba Paraíba Paraíba (Tupi: pa'ra a'íba: "bad to navigation"; Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east...

     state (N); Bom Jardim
    Bom Jardim, Pernambuco
    Bom Jardim is a municipality/city in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. The population in 2009 was 40.924 inhabitants and the total area is 222.88 km2.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Agreste of Pernambuco...

      (S); Machados
    Machados
    Machados is a city in northeastern Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco. It lies in the mesoregion of Agreste of Pernambuco and has 56.96 sq/km of total area...

     and São Vicente Ferrer
    São Vicente Ferrer, Pernambuco
    São Vicente Ferrer is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. According with IBGE in 2009, has an estimated population of 17.333 inhabitants...

      (E); Casinhas
    Casinhas
    Casinhas or little houses is a city in northeastern Brazil, in the State of Pernambuco. It lies in the mesoregion of Agreste of Pernambuco and has 125.28 sq/km of total area.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco...

      (W).
  • Area - 140.78 km2
  • Elevation - 415 m
  • Hidrography - Goiana River
    Goiana River
    The Goiana River is a river in Pernambuco state of northeastern Brazil. It is formed by the confluence of the Tracunhaém and Capibaribe Mirim rivers, and drains eastward into the Atlantic Ocean....

  • Vegetation - Caducifólia and Subcaducifólia forests
  • Clima - Tropical hot and humid
  • Annual average temperature - 25.0 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...

     - 127.4 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Orobó are related with 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 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, pig
Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...

s, chickens; and plantations of 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 and sugarcane
Sugarcane
Sugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...

.

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...

22.239 72.461 3.350 0.12 %

Economy by Sector
2006
Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector
20.17 % 6.74 % 73.09 %

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)
0.612 1 29 2.9
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