Araripina, Pernambuco, Northeast Region, Brazil
🇧🇷 Araripina is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. Total area of 1.847,5 km² and is located in the state mesoregion of Sertão, at 622 meters above the sea level and 683 km West from the state capital, Recife. The exploration of gypsum (95% of the Brazilian reserves) and calcarium is the base of the local economy and at the homonymous microregion.
Geography • State - Pernambuco • Region - Sertao Pernambucano • Boundaries - Ceará (N); Ouricuri (S); Ipubi and Trindade (E); Piauí (W) • Area - 1847.5 km² • Elevation - 622 m • Hydrography - Brigida River • Vegetation - Caatinga • Climate - Semi desertic (Sertao)- hot and dry • Annual average temperature - 22.4 c • Main road - BR 232 and BR 316 • Distance to Recife - 683 km.
Economy The main economic activities in Araripina are based in extraction of gypsum and no metallic minerals; and primary sector especially creation of goats, donkeys, pigs and farms with beans, manioc and corn. Araripina is located in the microregion with its name, which contains 95% of the Brazilian reserves of Gypsum.
Sport The main sports in Araripina is football which is represented by Araripina Futebol Clube, currently playing the Campeonato Pernambucano. Their stadium is known as Chapadão do Araripe which has 5000 seats.
Transport Araripina is served by Comte. Mairson C. Bezerra Airport.
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Araripina has a population of over 84,864 people. Araripina also forms the centre of the wider Araripina District which has a population of over 330,612 people. It is also a part of the larger Sertão Pernambucano Region.
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Locations Near: Araripina -35.7167,-8.66667
🇧🇷 Bonito -35.717,-8.467 d: 22.2
🇧🇷 Caruaru -36.034,-8.292 d: 54.3
🇧🇷 União dos Palmares -36.017,-9.15 d: 63
🇧🇷 Escada -35.224,-8.359 d: 64.1
🇧🇷 Vitória de Santo Antão -35.292,-8.116 d: 77
🇧🇷 Cabo de Santo Agostinho -35.028,-8.288 d: 86.7
🇧🇷 Garanhuns -36.483,-8.883 d: 87.6
🇧🇷 Rio Largo -35.85,-9.467 d: 90.2
Antipodal to: Araripina 144.283,8.667
🇬🇺 Hagåtña 144.746,13.467 d: 19479
🇬🇺 Tamuning 144.767,13.483 d: 19476.9
🇬🇺 Dededo 144.836,13.515 d: 19472.6
🇲🇵 Saipan 145.753,15.189 d: 19272.5
🇵🇼 Ngerulmud 134.627,7.487 d: 18944
🇮🇩 Jayapura 140.72,-2.529 d: 18709
🇮🇩 Mulia 137.985,-3.716 d: 18471.2