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Piranhas

Piranhas

Piranhas is a historic municipality near the western limit of the State of , in the Northeast Region of . Located on the banks of the , on the border with the State of , Piranhas was founded in 1891 and originally named Floriano Peixoto.
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  • Type: Town with 22,600 residents
  • Description: municipality of Alagoas state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Marechal Floriano” and “Piranhas, Alagoas”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canindé de São Francisco.

Town
Photo: Cleferson Comarela, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of . Its population was 30,402 and its area is 902.2 km2. is situated 6 km southwest of Piranhas.

Piranhas

Latitude
-9.61156° or 9° 36′ 42″ south
Longitude
-37.76164° or 37° 45′ 42″ west
Population
22,600
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
Open location code
692496QQ+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415521875
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3391965
Wiki­data ID
Q1998967
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Piranhas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيراناس”
  • Armenian: “Պիրանյաս”
  • Asturian: “Piranhas”
  • Basque: “Piranhas”
  • Bishnupriya: “পিরানহাস”
  • Catalan: “Piranhas”
  • Cebuano: “Piranhas”
  • Chechen: “Пираньяс”
  • Chinese: “Piranhas”
  • Chinese: “皮拉尼亚斯”
  • Dutch: “Piranhas”
  • Esperanto: “Piranhas”
  • French: “Piranhas”
  • Georgian: “პირანიასი”
  • German: “Piranhas”
  • Hungarian: “Piranhas”
  • Indonesian: “Piranhas”
  • Irish: “Piranhas”
  • Italian: “Piranhas”
  • Kazakh: “Pïranʹyas”
  • Kazakh: “Пираньяс”
  • Kazakh: “پىيرانياس”
  • Malagasy: “Piranhas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Piranhas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piranhas”
  • Norwegian: “Piranhas”
  • Portuguese: “Piranhas”
  • Romanian: “Piranhas”
  • Russian: “Пираньяс”
  • Swedish: “Piranhas”
  • Tatar: “Пираньяс”
  • Turkish: “Piranhas”
  • Vietnamese: “Piranhas”
  • Volapük: “Piranhas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piranhas”

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