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Ceará
Maracanaú Municipality

Maracanaú

Maracanaú is a municipality in the state of , . Its name comes from Tupi language and means "lagoon where maracanãs drink", because of the presence of these birds flying over the lagoons in the city's area.
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  • Type: City with 235,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Ceará state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Maracanau”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maranguape.

Photo: Lauriston, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , just southwest of , some 40 km from . The highest peaks in the area, reaching almost 1000 metres, back the city.

Maracanaú

Latitude
-3.8779° or 3° 52′ 41″ south
Longitude
-38.6248° or 38° 37′ 29″ west
Population
235,000
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BR MCN
Open location code
698349CG+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415524330
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3395473
Wiki­data ID
Q1794732
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Maracanaú” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماراكاناو”
  • Asturian: “Maracanaú”
  • Basque: “Maracanaú”
  • Bengali: “মারিাক্যানাউ”
  • Bishnupriya: “মারাকানাউ”
  • Catalan: “Maracanaú”
  • Cebuano: “Maracanaú”
  • Chechen: “Мараканау”
  • Chinese: “Maracanaú”
  • Chinese: “马拉卡纳乌”
  • Danish: “Maracanau”
  • Dutch: “Maracanau”
  • Dutch: “Maracanaú”
  • Esperanto: “Maracanau”
  • Esperanto: “Maracanaú”
  • Finnish: “Maracanaú”
  • French: “Maracanau”
  • French: “Maracanaú”
  • Georgian: “მარაკანაუ”
  • German: “Maracanaú”
  • Greek: “Μαρακανάου”
  • Gujarati: “મારાકાનાઉ”
  • Hindi: “मरकनऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Maracanaú”
  • Ido: “Maracanaú”
  • Indonesian: “Maracanaú”
  • Irish: “Maracanaú”
  • Italian: “Maracanaú”
  • Japanese: “マラカナウー”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಕಾನೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Marakanaw”
  • Kazakh: “Мараканау”
  • Kazakh: “ماراكاناۋ”
  • Korean: “마라카나우”
  • Latvian: “Marakanau”
  • Lithuanian: “Marakanau”
  • Malagasy: “Maracanaú”
  • Malay: “Maracanau”
  • Marathi: “मारकनॉ”
  • Mazanderani: “ماراکانائو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maracanaú”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maracanaú”
  • Norwegian: “Maracanaú”
  • Persian: “ماراکانائو”
  • Polish: “Maracanaú”
  • Portuguese: “Maracanaú (Ceará)”
  • Portuguese: “Maracanaú”
  • Romanian: “Maracanau”
  • Romanian: “Maracanaú”
  • Russian: “Мараканау”
  • Sinhala: “මරකනෞ”
  • Spanish: “Maracanau”
  • Spanish: “Maracanaú”
  • Swedish: “Maracanau”
  • Swedish: “Maracanaú”
  • Tamil: “மாறாக்கானா”
  • Tatar: “Мараканау”
  • Telugu: “మరకనుఁ”
  • Thai: “มาราคาเนา”
  • Turkish: “Maracanau”
  • Ukrainian: “Мараканау”
  • Urdu: “میراکاناؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Maracanaú”
  • Venetian: “Maracanaú”
  • Vietnamese: “Maracanaú”
  • Volapük: “Maracanaú”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maracanaú”
  • Welsh: “Maracanaú”

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