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It is Brazil's 4th largest city, having surpassed Salvador in 2023 census with a population of slightly over 2.7 million, and the 12th largest city by gross domestic product. It forms the core of the Fortaleza metropolitan area, which is home to over 4.1 million people. Fortaleza is an important industrial and commercial center of Northeast Brazil.
Fortaleza is the site of the Federal University of Ceará (founded 1954). Area 57,462 square miles (148,862 square km). Pop. (2022) 8,936,431. This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen. Fortaleza, port city and state capital, northeastern Ceará estado (state), northeastern Brazil. The city lies at the mouth of the ...
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Dec 14, 2018 · The week coincides with the anniversary of the 2015 Curió-Messejana massacre, when military police in Fortaleza shot dead 11 people, including nine young people aged 16-19, in an apparent revenge ...
Maracatu performance in central Fortaleza. In Brazil, Fortaleza is famous for the forró music and dance, and its crop of comedians. Cearenses (people born in Ceará) are also famous for their ease and fondness for a good verbal joke, from which derives a colorful and hilarious local vocabulary (e.g. a very ugly person is "a dog sucking mangoes ...
Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city, having surpassed Salvador in 2023 census with a population of slightly over 2.7 million, and the 12th largest city by gross domestic product. It forms the core of the Fortaleza metropolitan area, which is home to over 4.1 million people.
www .ceara .gov .br. Ceará ( / ˌseɪ.əˈrɑː / SAY-ə-RAH, Brazilian Portuguese: [seaˈɾa] ⓘ, locally [sjaˈɾa] or [si.aˈɾa]) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area.
Brazil, South America. Considering its isolation, Fortaleza is a surprisingly large and sprawling place. It’s one of Brazil’s biggest cities, and an economic magnet for people from Ceará and beyond. It’s also a draw for tourists from Brazil and overseas, who come for its beaches, party atmosphere and the spectacular smaller beach spots ...
