Belém de São Francisco
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Belém de São Francisco (Bethlehem of San Francisco) is a city in the state of Pernambuco
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The population in 2009, according with IBGE
IBGE
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE , is the agency responsible for statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil...

 was 21.342 and the area is 1830.81 km².

Geography

  • State - Pernambuco
    Pernambuco
    Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

  • Region - São Francisco
    São Francisco
    São Francisco is one of the 48 neighborhoods in which the Brazilian city of Niterói is divided.Its name derives from the church consecrated to Saint Francis Xavier and references to it can be found as early as the 17th century...

     Pernambucano
  • Boundaries - Salgueiro
    Salgueiro
    Salgueiro is a city in Pernambuco, Brazil. It's located in the mesoregion of Sertão Pernambucano . Salgueiro has a total area of 1639.3 square kilometers and had an estimated population of 55.435 inhabitants in 2009 according with IBGE....

      (N); Bahia state (S); Itacuruba
    Itacuruba
    Itacuruba is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE is 4.358 inhabitants and the total area is 430 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - São Francisco Pernambucano...

     and Carnaubeira da Penha
    Carnaubeira da Penha
    Carnaubeira da Penha is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 498 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 12.451 inhabitants and the total area is 1010.17 km²...

      (E); Cabrobó
    Cabrobó
    Cabrobó is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, 536 km away from the state's capital, Recife. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 30.432 and the area is 1658.08 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco...

      (W)
  • Area - 1830.81 km²
  • Elevation - 305 m
  • Hidrography - Pajeú and Terra Nova rivers
  • Vegetation - Caatinga
    Caatinga
    Caatinga is a type of vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in the northeastern part of Brazil. The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation"...

     hiperxerófila.
  • Clima - Semi arid ( Sertão
    Sertão
    In Portuguese, the word sertão first referred to the vast hinterlands of Asia that Lusitanian explorers encountered. In Brazil, the geographical term referred to backlands away from the Atlantic coastal regions where the Portuguese first settled in South America in the early sixteenth century...

    ) hot and dry
  • Annual average temperature - 26.2 c
  • Distance to Recife
    Recife
    Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

     - 456 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Belém de São Francisco are based in general commerce and agribusiness
Agribusiness
In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term for the various businesses involved in food production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales....

, especially creation of goat
Goat
The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...

s, sheeps, cattle
Cattle
Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius...

, donkey
Donkey
The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus, is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African Wild Ass, E...

s and chicken
Chicken
The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...

s; and plantations of mangoes, onion
Onion
The onion , also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion The onion...

s, and rice
Rice
Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

.

Economic Indicators

Population GDP x(1000 R$). GDP pc (R$) PE
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

21.342 78.820 3.836 0.13 %

Economy by Sector
2006
Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector
20.04 % 9.43 % 70.54 %

Health Indicators

HDI
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

(2000)
Hospitals (2007) Hospitals beds (2007) Children's Mortality every 1000 (2005)
0.669 1 48 22.4
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