Juazeiro
Municipality in Northeast, Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the city named simply as Juazeiro in the Brazilian state of Bahia. For the city with similar name in the state of Ceará, see Juazeiro do Norte. For the city with similar name in the state of Piauí, see Juazeiro do Piauí.
Juazeiro, formerly also known as Joazeiro,[4] is a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the northeastern region of Brazil.
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Juazeiro | |
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Municipality of Juazeiro | |
Coordinates: 09°25′50″S 40°30′10″W | |
Country | Brazil |
Region | Northeast |
State | Bahia |
Mesoregion | Vale São-Franciscano da Bahia |
Microregion | Juazeiro |
Founded | May 9, 1833 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Suzana Ramos |
Area | |
• Total | 6,500.520 km2 (2,509.865 sq mi) |
Elevation | 368 m (1,207 ft) |
Population (2020 est.)[2] | |
• Total | 218,162 |
• Density | 34/km2 (87/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
HDI (2010) | 0.677 – medium[3] |
Website | juazeiro |
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The city is twinned with Petrolina, in the state of Pernambuco. The two cities are connected by a modern bridge crossing the São Francisco River. Together they form the metropolitan region of Petrolina-Juazeiro, an urban conglomerate of close to 500,000 inhabitants.