Alto Alegre
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- North
- State
- Roraima
- Mayor
- Pedro Henrique Machado ( PSD )
- Total
- 25,567 km (9,871 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.82395/km (2.1340/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−4 ( AMT )
- Website
- altoalegre.rr.gov.br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Demonym
- alto-alegrense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Roraima
- Population
- 23049
- Area
- 25566.845
- Elevation
- 72
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Iracema
- Official website
- www.altoalegre.rr.gov.br
- Dialing code
- 95
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- Commons category
- Alto Alegre (Roraima)
- Human Development Index
- 0.542
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 26677433.49
- electorate
- 10390
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Encyclopedic overview
Alto Alegre ( Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈawtu aˈlɛɡɾi]) is a city in the Brazilian state of Roraima. The population in 2020 was 15,380, and the area is 25,567 km. Its limits are Amajari to the north, Boa Vista in the east, Mucajaí and Iracema in the south, and Venezuela in the west.
Alto Alegre was founded by Pedro Costa, a gold miner. In 1982, it became an independent municipality. It can be accessed from the RR-205 highway from Boa Vista.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alto Alegre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.