Pirapora
Pirapora is a municipality in northcentral Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population is 56,640 in an area of 550 km2. The name Pirapora comes from the Tupi words for "fish" + "jump", referring to the piracema season when a mass migration of fishes ascends the São Francisco River to spawn.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buritizeiro.
Buritizeiro
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buritizeiro is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2020 was 28,121 inhabitants in a total area of 7,226 km2. It is a major producer of cattle and grains.
Pirapora
- Type: Town with 55,600 residents
- Description: municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Minas Gerais, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-17.3494° or 17° 20′ 58″ southLongitude
-44.9508° or 44° 57′ 3″ westPopulation
55,600Elevation
679 metres (2,228 feet)Open location code
58JQM22X+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 415522798OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6321679Wikidata ID
Q1756358
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Pirapora” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pirapora”
- Bishnupriya: “পিরাপোরা”
- Catalan: “Pirapora”
- Cebuano: “Pirapora”
- Chechen: “Пирапора”
- Chinese: “Pirapora”
- Chinese: “皮拉波拉”
- Dutch: “Pirapora”
- Esperanto: “Pirapora”
- French: “Pirapora”
- Georgian: “პირაპორა”
- German: “Pirapora”
- Hungarian: “Pirapora”
- Irish: “Pirapora”
- Italian: “Pirapora”
- Kazakh: “Pïrapora”
- Kazakh: “Пирапора”
- Kazakh: “پىيراپورا”
- Malagasy: “Pirapora”
- Mazanderani: “پیراپورا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pirapora”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pirapora”
- Norwegian: “Pirapora”
- Polish: “Pirapora”
- Portuguese: “Pirapora”
- Romanian: “Pirapora”
- Russian: “Пирапора”
- Scots: “Pirapora”
- Serbian: “Pirapora”
- Serbian: “Пирапора”
- Spanish: “Pirapora”
- Swedish: “Pirapora”
- Tatar: “Пирапора”
- Turkish: “Pirapora”
- Urdu: “پیراپورا”
- Vietnamese: “Pirapora”
- Volapük: “Pirapora”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pirapora”
- Welsh: “Pirapora”
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