São José do Belmonte
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São José do Belmonte 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 34.118 inhabitants and the total area is 1479.96 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 - Paraiba and Ceará states (N); Mirandiba
    Mirandiba
    Mirandiba is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 13.810 inhabitants and the total area is 809.26 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...

      (S); Serra Talhada
    Serra Talhada
    Serra Talhada is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. It is located at 07º59'31" South and 38º17'54" West, at an altitude of 429 metres. As of 2009, its estimated population by IBGE was 80.294 people. Its area is approximately 2980 km sq.-History:...

      (E); Verdejante
    Verdejante
    Verdejante is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 10.098 inhabitants and the total area is 476.03 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...

      (W)
  • Area - 1479.96 km²
  • Elevation - 486 m
  • Hidrography - Pajeú River
    Pajeú River
    The Pajeú River is a tributary of the São Francisco River in Pernambuco state of northeastern Brazil. The Pajeú originates on the Borborema Plateau, and flows southwest to join the São Francisco....

  • 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...

    )
  • Annual average temperature - 25.4 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...

     - 470 km

Economy

The main economic activities in São José do Belmonte are based in industry, 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, horses, chickens; and plantations of manioc, beans  and tomatoes.

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...

34.118 97.342 2.976 0.17 %

Economy by Sector
2006
Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector
15.19 % 15.76 % 69.05 %

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)
0.635 2 76 19.9
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