Garanhuns
Sign in to saveGaranhuns () is a Brazilian municipality in the Agreste region of the state of Pernambuco, located 230 kilometers from the state capital, Recife. It covers an area of km² and belongs to the Caruaru Intermediate Geographic Region, serving as the principal and most populous municipality in the Garanhuns Immediate Geographic Region. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2022, Garanhuns had an estimated population of approximately 142,506 inhabitants, making it the ninth most populous municipality in Pernambuco, the third most populous in the state's interior,
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- Garanhuns
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- Municipality
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- Municipality of Garanhuns
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- Ad altiora tendere"Striving to be greater"
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- Sivaldo Rodrigues Albino
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- Northeast
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- Caruaru
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Garanhuns () is a Brazilian municipality in the Agreste region of the state of Pernambuco, located 230 kilometers from the state capital, Recife. It covers an area of km² and belongs to the Caruaru Intermediate Geographic Region, serving as the principal and most populous municipality in the Garanhuns Immediate Geographic Region. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2022, Garanhuns had an estimated population of approximately 142,506 inhabitants, making it the ninth most populous municipality in Pernambuco, the third most populous in the state's interior, and the second most populous in the Pernambucan Agreste region.
Originally, the lands of Garanhuns were inhabited by the indigenous Cariri people. During the 17h century, white colonists and enslaved Africans escaping Dutch domination in Dutch Brazil established communities in the region's Caatinga moist-forest enclaves, establishing scattered villages. On 29 September 1658, Mestre de campo Nicolau Aranha Pacheco, Captain Cosmo de Brito Cação, Antonio Fernandes Aranha, and Ambrósio Aranha de Farias received a land grant of approximately 20 leagues from the acting governor, André Vidal de Negreiros. This grant included two plots: one in the fields of Garanhuns and another in Panema. That same year, the Garcia Farm was established in the area now encompassing the municipal seat.
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