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Map of Recife and Mauritsstad, ca. 1682, Weduwe van Jacob van Meurs (publisher) Recife began as a collection of fishing shacks, inns and warehouses on the delta between the Capibaribe and Beberibe Rivers in the captaincy of Pernambuco, sometime between 1535 and 1537 in the earliest days of Portuguese colonisation of Terra de Santa Cruz, later called Brazil, on the northeast coast of South America.
Recife Metropolitan Area, officially the Metropolitan Region of Recife (Portuguese: Região Metropolitana do Recife (RMR), or Grande Recife), is a major metropolitan area in Northeast Brazil with a population of 3,7 million as of 2022, [1] [2] centered on the state capital of Recife, Pernambuco.
The Recife Metro (Portuguese: Metrô do Recife, Metrorec) is a rapid transit system serving the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.It is operated by the federally-owned Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU) and currently serves 29 stations, along 39.5 kilometers (24.5 mi) of track.
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Currently, the Suape Industrial and Port Complex, located in the area of the homonymous port, Metropolitan Region of Recife, is the main industrial pole of Pernambuco. The state capital is home to Porto Digital, a technology park with more than 200 companies, including multinationals such as Accenture, Oracle, ThoughtWorks, Ogilvy, IBM and ...
Recife is one of Brazil's biggest logistics centers, combining Suape, the international airport and a central location in Brazil's northeastern region. Logistics, communications and financial sector employees make up 4% [ 6 ] of the Recife workforce and over 9% in the Metropolitan Area .
Greater Recife This page was last edited on 31 December 2018, at 22:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Today, the main tributaries are the channels Euclides, Malaria, and Vasco da Gama, which are all located within Greater Recife. The Beberibe meets the Capibaribe River near the end of Aurora Street to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. Recife's eponymous Beberibe neighborhood is located upon the river. The name comes from Tupi.