Formosa do Rio Preto Municipality
Formosa do Rio Preto is the westernmost and largest city in the Brazilian state of Bahia. It is also the largest in all Northeastern Brazil. The municipality contains part of the 707,079 hectares Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 2001 to preserve an area of cerrado.- Town with about 25,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 750 metres (2,460 feet)
- …is also known as “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- …was formerly known as “Itajuí”
- Description: municipality of Bahia State, Brazil
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Latitude
-11.0406° or 11° 2′ 26″ south
Longitude
-45.1905° or 45° 11′ 26″ west
Open location code
58WPXR55+PR
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Wu Chinese—“Formosa do Rio Preto Municipality” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ֆորմոզա դու Ռիու Պրետու”
- Basque: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Bishnupriya: “ফোর্মোসা ডো রিও প্রেটো”
- Bulgarian: “Формоза до Рио Прето”
- Catalan: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Cebuano: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Chechen: “Формоза-ду-Риу-Прету”
- Chinese: “普雷图河畔福莫萨”
- Dutch: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Esperanto: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- French: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Georgian: “ფორმოზა-დუ-რიუ-პრეტუ”
- German: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Hungarian: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Irish: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Italian: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Kazakh: “Formoza-dw-Rïw-Pretw”
- Kazakh: “Формоза-ду-Риу-Прету”
- Kazakh: “فورموزا-دۋ-رىيۋ-پرەتۋ”
- Malagasy: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Mazanderani: “فرموسا دو ریو پرتو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Norwegian: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Persian: “فرموسا دو ریو پرتو”
- Polish: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Portuguese: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Romanian: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Russian: “Формоза-ду-Риу-Прету”
- Spanish: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Swedish: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Tatar: “Формоза-ду-Риу-Прету”
- Turkish: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Urdu: “فورموزا دو ریو پریتو”
- Uzbek: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Vietnamese: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Volapük: “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Formosa do Rio Preto”
- Wu Chinese: “普雷图河畔福莫萨”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Alvorada and Morrinho.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Praça da Juventude and Praça do Cidadão.
Bahia: Highlights
Learn more about Salvador and Feira de Santana.
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