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The following is a list of mayors of the city of Recife, Brazil. [1] José Mariano Carneiro da Cunha , 1891; Francisco do Rego Barros Lacerda, 1891–1892; Manuel Pinto Damaso, 1892–1893; José Marcelino da Rosa e Silva , 1893–1896; José de Cupertino Coelho Cintra , 1896–1899; Luiz Cavalcanti de Almeida, 1899
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.
Jaboatão dos Guararapes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒabwaˈtɐ̃w duz ɡwaɾaˈɾapis]) is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.It is a part of the Recife metro area.The population was 706,867 according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2020, making it the second most-populous city in the state of Pernambuco and the 27th in Brazil, ahead of major Brazilian ...
Pernambuco (Brazilian Portuguese: [pɛʁnɐ̃ˈbuku] ⓘ) is a state of Brazil located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.5 million people as of 2024, [4] it is the seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,067.877 km 2, it is the 19th-largest in area among federative units of the country.
Santa Cruz do Capibaribe is a Brazilian municipality in the State of Pernambuco. It is the third largest city in the mesoregion of Agreste of Pernambuco with a population of 109,897 inhabitants in 2020. It has 335.309 km 2 (208.5 square miles) of total area and it is located about 185.7 km (115.4 miles) from the capital Recife.
1654 - Recapture of Recife by Portuguese forces. 1667 - Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos (Recife) (church) established (approximate date). [citation needed] 1710 - War of the Mascates begins. [4] [5] 1720 - Igreja Madre de Deus (Recife) (church) built. 1767 - Basilica and Convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Recife (church) built.
The first Synagogue built in the Americas, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is located in Recife Antigo, on Rua do Bom Jesus, formerly Rua dos Judeus, or Street of the Jews. The Portuguese synagogue was founded in lower Manhattan and it is located on Central Park West in Manhattan nowadays under the name Portuguese & Spanish synagogue.
Olinda is located on the coast of the state of Pernambuco, six kilometers north of the center of Recife. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the municipality of Paulista to the north, and Recife to the south and west. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR). The average elevation is 16 m above sea level.