Parnamirim 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 19.850 and the area is 2608.07 km². It is also, the start point of BR 232

Brazilian Highway System

The Brazilian Highway System is the highway system of Brazil, the fourth largest in the World. As of 2010, the system consists of almost 2 million kilometers of roads, of which approximately 200,000 km are paved.As it is in the United States, Canada or most countries in Europe, larger/wider...

, one important federal highway.

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 - Granito
  Granito
  Granito is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 6.944 inhabitants and the total area is 521.86 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
  , Serrita
  Serrita
  Serrita is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 18.958 inhabitants and the total area is 1603.6 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...
  
   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...
  
    (N); Santa Maria da Boa Vista
  Santa Maria da Boa Vista
  Santa Maria da Boa Vista is a town in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 41,745 and the area is 3001.2 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - São Francisco Pernambucano...
  
   and Orocó
  Oroco
  Orocó is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE is 14.279 and the area is 554.75 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - São Francisco Pernambucano...
  
    (S); Terra Nova
  Terra Nova, Pernambuco
  Terra Nova is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 572 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 9.801 inhabitants and the total area is 360.86 km².-Geography:...
  
   and Cabrobó
  Cabrobó
  Cabrobó is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 536 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 30.432 and the area is 1658.08 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco...
  
    (E); Ouricuri
  Ouricuri
  Ouricuri it's a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. 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....
  
   and 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...
  
    (W)
• Area - 2.608.07 km²
• Elevation - 392 m
• Hidrography - Brigida
  Brigida River
  -References:*...
  
   and Terra Nova
  Terra Nova River
  The Terra Nova River is a Canadian river in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.It drains an area in the centre of the island of Newfoundland, discharging into Bonavista Bay at Glovertown....
  
   rivers
• 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 - hot and dry
• 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...
  
   - 554 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Parnamirim 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, 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...

, sheeps, 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 onion

Onion

The onion , also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion The onion...

s, beans and water melons.

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...
19.850	68.057	3.542	0.11 %

Economy by Sector
2006

Primary sector	Secondary sector	Service sector
15.21 %	9.11 %	75.68 %

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)
0.665	1	29	31.5