Alagoinha
Sign in to saveAlagoinha (Little Alagoas) is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. The name "Alagoinha" refers to the many small tanks, wells, cauldrons, and lagoons within the city. Nossa Senhora da Conceição Our Lady of Conceição is the patroness saint of the city. The church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, which has a simple style, was built by German Franciscan friars in 1916. The city has a strong connection to the German culture.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Alagoinha
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira de Alagoinha PE.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- PE-mapa-Alagoinha.png
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.map_caption
- Alagoinha in Pernambuco
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Pernambuco
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 200.42
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 726
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 14,718
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Official website
Prefeitura de Alagoinha
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- alagoinhense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Pernambuco
- Population
- 11068
- Area
- 200.422
- Elevation
- 800
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- Pesqueira
- Official website
- www.alagoinha.pe.gov.br
- Dialing code
- 87
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- Commons category
- Alagoinha (Pernambuco)
- Human Development Index
- 0.599
- electorate
- 10727
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Alagoinha (Little Alagoas) is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. The name "Alagoinha" refers to the many small tanks, wells, cauldrons, and lagoons within the city. Nossa Senhora da Conceição Our Lady of Conceição is the patroness saint of the city. The church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, which has a simple style, was built by German Franciscan friars in 1916. The city has a strong connection to the German culture.
==Geography== State - Pernambuco Region - Agreste of Pernambuco Coordinates - Boundaries - Pesqueira (north and east); Venturosa (south and west). Area - 200.42 km2 Elevation - 726 m Hydrography - Ipojuca and Ipanema rivers Vegetation - Caatinga hiperxerófila Climate - Transition between tropical hot and humid and, semi arid hot and dry Annual average temperature - 21.6 c Distance to Recife - 225.5 km
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alagoinha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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