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Ceará

Ceará is a state in Northeast . Traditionally one of the poorest in the country, certain regions have developed almost beyond recognition over the last 20 years, mostly from tourism and light manufacturing.
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is a major city on 's northeast coast, and the capital of Ceará state. It is one of the largest cities in Brazil and certainly one of the most vibrant.

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is a city in Ceará, , one of the largest pilgrimage sites of South America. It forms a larger urban area, dubbed CraJuBa, with neighbouring Crato and Barbalha containing some 400,000 people.

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is a major suburb of in Ceará. It is the administrative and commercial center of a region comprising the beaches of and Icaraí.

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is a city in Ceará, Brazil. The state´s biggest economy outside the capital, the heat of this city keeps most tourists away. It could, however, be a nice off-the beaten-track stopover on your way to Jericoacoara.

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is a city in Ceará. Being the administrative center of , its main attraction for tourists is as a connecting point to the latter.

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is a city in Ceará, just southwest of , some 40 km from . The highest peaks in the area, reaching almost 1000 metres, back the city.

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is a beach town in the northeastern state of Ceará.

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Jericoacoara is a small fishing village come beach hippie resort in Ceará, , some 300 km west of . Jeri, as it is affectionately known, is the kind of idyllic place where many travelers end up deciding to stay for longer than they had originally planned.

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is a beach town in western Ceará. Parts of its more glorious past as an agriculture export port can be felt if walking in the area near the former train station.

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is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the of . In this municipality is located the .

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is a Brazilian city in the northwest of the state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil with an estimated 75,159 inhabitants, and one of the most important and oldest cities in the county.

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is a coastal city in the state of Ceará. The larger municipality is a popular holiday and day trip destination as it has some good beaches.

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is the center of an agricultural region in the eastern parts of Ceará. Not much of a touristy spot, it is conveniently located on the main highway BR-116, some 170 km from , and could be a stopover for a taste of the real Brazil.

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is a town in Ceará, . At an altitude of some 900 metres, it is a cool refuge for the upper class of , a good 100 km to the southwest. Its attractions spin around lush green hills with waterfalls.

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is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Ceará. It is the 11th most populous city in the state. It is known for being religious, especially during the annual Saint Francis Party that lasts an entire week.

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is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the of . The municipality contains part of the 1,592,550 hectares Serra da Ibiapaba Environmental Protection Area, created in 1996. Currently is governed by Mayor Luiz Menezes de Lima.

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is a small town in Ceará, about 60 km inland from . Its main and almost sole attraction being its museum, the town is best suited for a day trip.

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is a beach village in Ceará. 160 km southeast of , in the municipality of , Canoa, as it is mostly referred to, is a village installed on red sandstone cliffs.

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is the smallest of all the Brazilian national parks but it's big in natural scenery with mountain streams, waterfalls, cloud forests, and a large natural grotto behind a waterfall that is accessed by cable car.
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Ceará

Latitude of center
-5.3265° or 5° 19′ 35″ south
Longitude of center
-39.7156° or 39° 42′ 56″ west
Population
8,790,000
Elevation
279 metres (915 feet)
Abbreviation
“CE”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 539832191
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3402362
Wiki­data ID
Q40123
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ceará” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ceara”
  • Afrikaans: “Ceará”
  • Arabic: “سيارا”
  • Armenian: “Սեարա”
  • Asturian: “Ceará”
  • Aymara: “Ceara Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Seara”
  • Basque: “Ceara”
  • Basque: “Ceará”
  • Belarusian: “Сеара”
  • Belarusian: “Сэара”
  • Belarusian: “штат Сеара”
  • Bengali: “সিয়ারা”
  • Bishnupriya: “কিয়েরা”
  • Bosnian: “Ceará”
  • Breton: “Ceara”
  • Breton: “Ceará”
  • Bulgarian: “Сеара”
  • Burmese: “ဆီအာရာပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Ceará”
  • Catalan: “Cearà”
  • Cebuano: “Ceará (estado sa Brasil)”
  • Cebuano: “Ceará”
  • Chinese: “Ceará”
  • Chinese: “塞阿拉州”
  • Chinese: “塞阿腊州”
  • Cornish: “Ceará”
  • Corsican: “Ceará”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Seara”
  • Croatian: “Ceará”
  • Czech: “Ceará”
  • Danish: “Ceará”
  • Dutch: “Ceara”
  • Dutch: “Ceará”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سييارا”
  • Esperanto: “Ceará”
  • Esperanto: “Cearao”
  • Estonian: “Ceara osariik”
  • Estonian: “Ceará osariik”
  • Finnish: “Ceara”
  • Finnish: “Ceará”
  • French: “Ceara”
  • French: “Ceará”
  • Galician: “Ceará”
  • Georgian: “სეარა”
  • German: “Ceará”
  • German: “Estado do Ceará”
  • Greek: “Σεαρά”
  • Guarani: “Ceara”
  • Guarani: “Siara”
  • Gujarati: “સિયારા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ceará-chû”
  • Hebrew: “סיארה”
  • Hindi: “कीरा”
  • Hindi: “सियारा”
  • Hindi: “सेआरा”
  • Hungarian: “Ceará”
  • Icelandic: “Ceará”
  • Ido: “Ceara”
  • Ido: “Ceará”
  • Indonesian: “Ceara”
  • Indonesian: “Ceará”
  • Interlingua: “Ceará”
  • Irish: “Ceará”
  • Italian: “Ceará”
  • Japanese: “セアラー”
  • Japanese: “セアラー州”
  • Japanese: “セアラ州”
  • Kannada: “ಸೀರಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сеара”
  • Kazakh: “Сеара”
  • Korean: “세아라주”
  • Ladino: “Ceará”
  • Latin: “civitas Siarensis”
  • Latin: “Civitas Siarensis”
  • Latvian: “Seara”
  • Limburgan: “Ceará”
  • Lithuanian: “Seara”
  • Macedonian: “Сеара”
  • Malagasy: “Ceará”
  • Malay: “Ceará”
  • Marathi: “सिआरा”
  • Marathi: “सियारा”
  • Mazanderani: “سئارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ceará”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ceará”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ceara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ceará”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Céara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ceará”
  • Norwegian: “Ceará”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ceará”
  • Ossetian: “Сеара”
  • Persian: “سئارا”
  • Piemontese: “Cearà”
  • Polish: “Ceara”
  • Polish: “Ceará”
  • Portuguese: “CE”
  • Portuguese: “Ceará”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Ceará”
  • Quechua: “Ceará suyu”
  • Romanian: “Ceará”
  • Russian: “Сеара”
  • Scots: “Ceara”
  • Scots: “Ceará”
  • Serbian: “Сеара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ceara”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ceará”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Seara”
  • Sinhala: “කෙයාරා ප්‍රාන්තය, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “කෙයාරා”
  • Slovak: “Ceará”
  • Slovenian: “Ceará”
  • Spanish: “Ceara”
  • Spanish: “Ceará”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Ceará”
  • Swahili: “Ceara”
  • Swahili: “Ceará”
  • Swedish: “Ceara”
  • Swedish: “Ceará”
  • Tajik: “Сеара”
  • Tamil: “சாரா”
  • Tamil: “சியாரா”
  • Tatar: “Сеара”
  • Telugu: “సియారా”
  • Tetum: “Ceará”
  • Thai: “รัฐเซอารา”
  • Turkish: “BR-CE”
  • Turkish: “CE”
  • Turkish: “Ceará (eyalet)”
  • Turkish: “Ceará eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Ceará”
  • Turkish: “Estado do Ceará”
  • Ukrainian: “Сеара”
  • Urdu: “سئیرا”
  • Uzbek: “Seara”
  • Venetian: “Ceará”
  • Vietnamese: “Ceará”
  • Volapük: “Ceará”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ceara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ceará”
  • Welsh: “Ceará”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیارا”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞阿腊州”
  • Yoruba: “Ceará”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞阿拉州”
  • “BR-CE”
  • “CE”
  • “Ceará”
  • “ma Ceará”
  • “ma Sejala”
  • “ma Sela”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ceará”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.