Cairu
Cairu is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. The municipality consists of three islands: the Island of Cairu, which is only separated from the mainland by a narrow river; Tinharé Island, which has the dense tourist settlement of Morro de São Paulo to the north; and Boipeba Island.Photo: Marcos Dias, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 17,800 residents
- Description: municipality of Bahia State, Brazil
- Also known as: “Cayru”
- Neighbors: Nilo Peçanha and Valença
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taperoá.
Taperoá
Town
Taperoá is a municipality in Bahia, Brazil. The municipality contains part of the 230,296-hectare Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança Environmental Protection Area, created in 2003. Taperoá is situated 8 km southwest of Cairu.
Cairu
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Cairu Municipality, Bahia, Northeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-13.48661° or 13° 29′ 12″ southLongitude
-39.04384° or 39° 2′ 38″ westPopulation
17,800Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
MXQUnited Nations Location Code
BR CIROpen location code
59R2GX74+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 415522570OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3468195Wikidata ID
Q960632
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Cairu” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կայրու”
- Basque: “Cairu”
- Bishnupriya: “কাইরু”
- Breton: “Cairu”
- Catalan: “Cairu”
- Cebuano: “Cairu”
- Chechen: “Кайру”
- Chinese: “Cairu”
- Chinese: “凯鲁”
- Dutch: “Cairu”
- Esperanto: “Cairu”
- French: “Cairu”
- Georgian: “კაირუ”
- German: “Cairu”
- Hungarian: “Cairu”
- Irish: “Cairu”
- Italian: “Cairu”
- Japanese: “カイル (ブラジル)”
- Kazakh: “Кайру”
- Malagasy: “Cairu”
- Mazanderani: “کایرو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cairu”
- Mirandese: “Cairu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cairu”
- Norwegian: “Cairu”
- Persian: “کایرو”
- Polish: “Cairu”
- Portuguese: “Cairu”
- Romanian: “Cairu”
- Russian: “Кайру”
- Spanish: “Cairu”
- Swedish: “Cairu”
- Tatar: “Кайру”
- Turkish: “Cairu”
- Vietnamese: “Cairu”
- Volapük: “Cairu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cairu”
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