Ouricuri it's 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...

. It's located in the mesoregion of Sertão Pernambucano . Ouricuri has a total area of 2.423 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 66.978 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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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 - Araripina
  Araripina
  Araripina is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. Has an estimated population in 2009 of 79.877 inhabitants according with IBGE...
  
  , Trindade
  Trindade
  -Transportation:Trindade are linked with São Tomé and Príncipe's only highways linking to the capital city of São Tomé, another linking Neves and Santana and another linking to Guadalupe as well....
  
   and Ipubi
  Ipubi
  Ipubi is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 27.353 inhabitants and the total area is 665.62 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
   (N), Santa Cruz
  Santa Cruz, Pernambuco
  Santa Cruz is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 12.942 and the area is 1255.9 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
   and Santa Filomena
  Santa Filomena, Pernambuco
  Santa Filomena is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2008, according with IBGE was 14.694 inhabitants and the total area is 1005.06 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
   (S), Parnamirim
  Parnamirim, Pernambuco
  Parnamirim is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 19.850 and the area is 2608.07 km²...
  
   and Bodocó
  Bodoco
  Bodocó is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 34.988 and the area is 1553.85 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
    (E), Piaui
  Piauí
  Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country.Piauí has the shortest coastline of any of the non-landlocked Brazilian states at 66 km , and the capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the north east to be located inland...
  
   state (W)
• Area - 2.423 sqkm
• Elevation - 451 m
• Hidrography - Brigida River
  Brigida River
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• 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"...
  
   hiperxerofila.
• Clima - Semi desertic ( Sertao
  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
• Annual average temperature - 25.5 c
• Main road - BR 232 and BR 316
• 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...
  
   - 621 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Ouricuri are based in extraction of gypsum and no metallic minerals, and primary sector especially creation of goats, donkeys, pigs and farms with beans, manioc and corn. Ouricuri is located in the micro region of Araripina

Araripina

Araripina is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. Has an estimated population in 2009 of 79.877 inhabitants according with IBGE...

 which contains 95% of the Brazilian reserves of Gypsum

Gypsum

Gypsum is a very soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. It is found in alabaster, a decorative stone used in Ancient Egypt. It is the second softest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale...

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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...
66.978	200.880	3.186	0.33 %

Economy by Sector
2006

Primary sector	Secondary sector	Service sector
6.51 %	17.42 %	76.07 %

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)
0.614	2	165	27.4