Caculé
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Caculé is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Bahia, which possesses 23,291 inhabitants , according to IBGE. It is situated 750 kilometers southwest from Salvador. Its economy is based mostly on agriculture. The climate in Caculé is warm and dry during the day, being cooler at night, at about 15 °C. The "Rio Antônio" (river Antônio) crosses the city. Although it presently has no operational railroad station, Caculé is midpoint on the Ferrovia Centro Atlântica railroad route connecting Montes Claros to Salvador, Bahia.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Caculé
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality of Bahia, Brazil
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Cacule-Bahia Praca do Mercado.jpg
- Settlement.image_alt
- Market square of Caculé
- Settlement.image_caption
- Market square of Caculé
- Settlement.image_flag
- File:Bandeira cacule.jpg
- Settlement.flag_alt
- Flag of Caculé
- Settlement.image_shield
- File:Brasao cacule.png
- Settlement.shield_alt
- Coat of arms of Caculé
- Settlement.etymology
- Named after the farmer Manoel Caculé
- Settlement.motto
- Latin: Fides, Ordo, LaborEnglish: Faith, Order, Work
- Settlement.image_map
- File:Bahia Municip Cacule.svg
- Settlement.map_alt
- Location of Caculé in Bahia
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Caculé in Bahia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Brazil#South America
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- caculense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Bahia
- Population
- 17812
- Area
- 610.983
- Elevation
- 753
- Shares border with
- Rio do Antônio
- Official website
- www.governodecacule.ba.gov.br
- Image
- Cacule-Bahia Praca do Mercado.jpg
- Dialing code
- 77
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- Commons category
- Caculé
- postal code
- 46300-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.637
- electorate
- 15640
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Caculé is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Bahia, which possesses 23,291 inhabitants , according to IBGE. It is situated 750 kilometers southwest from Salvador. Its economy is based mostly on agriculture. The climate in Caculé is warm and dry during the day, being cooler at night, at about 15 °C. The "Rio Antônio" (river Antônio) crosses the city. Although it presently has no operational railroad station, Caculé is midpoint on the Ferrovia Centro Atlântica railroad route connecting Montes Claros to Salvador, Bahia.
==See also== List of municipalities in Bahia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caculé” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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