Canudos
Sign in to saveCanudos is a municipality in the northeast region of Bahia, Brazil. The original town, since flooded by the Cocorobó Dam, was the scene of violent clashes between peasants and republican police in the 1890s.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Canudos
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Canudos.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Canudos, circa 1895
- Settlement.image_map
- Bahia Municip Canudos.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Bahia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nordeste
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bahia
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 16,753
- Settlement.timezone
- BRT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- −3
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- canudense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Bahia
- Population
- 13762
- Area
- 2997.77
- Elevation
- 402
- Shares border with
- Euclides da Cunha
- Official website
- www.canudos.ba.gov.br
- Image
- Canudos.jpg
- Dialing code
- 75
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- Commons category
- Canudos
- postal code
- 48520-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.562
- inception
- 1893-00-00
- electorate
- 11147
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Settlement
- Suppression of the community
- Post-War Canudos
- See also
- References
- External links
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canudos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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