Igarassu
Igarassu is a city in Pernambuco, Brazil. A short drive from Recife, Igarassu is home to Brazil's oldest church and Latin America's largest collection of baroque paintings.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 115,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Pernambuco State, Brazil
- Also known as: “Igarassu, Pernambuco”, “Iguaraçu”, and “Iguarassú”
- Neighbors: Goiana, Itamaracá, and Tracunhaém
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of São Cosme e São Damião and Church and Convent of Saint Antony.
Church of São Cosme e São Damião
Church
Photo: patano, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Saints Cosme and Damião, officially called the Igreja Matriz de São Cosme e São Damião, is a Catholic church located in the city of Igarassu, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Church and Convent of Saint Antony
Church
Photo: Willams Melo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church and Convent of Saint Antony is a 17th-century Roman Catholic church located in Igarassu, Pernambuco, Brazil. It was constructed by the Franciscans during the settlement of Pernambuco, and was the third Franciscan convent in Brazil.
Igarassu
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Grande Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.8354° or 7° 50′ 8″ southLongitude
-34.9061° or 34° 54′ 22″ westPopulation
115,000Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)United Nations Location Code
BR IGAOpen location code
6947537V+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 415521409OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Igarassu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيغاراسو”
- Basque: “Igarassu”
- Bengali: “ইগুারাসসু”
- Bishnupriya: “ইগারাসসু”
- Catalan: “Igarassu”
- Cebuano: “Igarassu”
- Chechen: “Игарасу”
- Chinese: “Igarassu”
- Chinese: “伊加拉苏”
- Danish: “Igarassu”
- Dutch: “Igarassu”
- Esperanto: “Igaraçu”
- Esperanto: “Igarassu”
- Finnish: “Igarassu”
- French: “Igaraçu”
- French: “Igarassu”
- German: “Igarassu”
- Greek: “Ιγκαράσσου”
- Gujarati: “ઈગરસુ”
- Hindi: “इगारासु”
- Hungarian: “Igarassu”
- Indonesian: “Igarassu”
- Irish: “Igarassu”
- Italian: “Igarassu”
- Japanese: “イガラス”
- Kannada: “ಇಗ್ರಾಸ್ಸೂ”
- Kazakh: “Ïgarasw”
- Kazakh: “Игарасу”
- Kazakh: “ىيگاراسۋ”
- Korean: “이가라수”
- Latvian: “Igarassu”
- Lithuanian: “Igarasas”
- Malagasy: “Igarassu”
- Malay: “Igarassu”
- Marathi: “इगरससु”
- Mazanderani: “یگاراسسو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Igarassu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Igarassu”
- Norwegian: “Igarassu”
- Polish: “Igarassu”
- Portuguese: “Igaraçu”
- Portuguese: “Igarassu”
- Romanian: “Igarassu”
- Russian: “Игарасу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Igarassu”
- Sinhala: “ඉගරස්සු”
- Spanish: “Igarassu”
- Swedish: “Igarassu”
- Tamil: “யிகராசு”
- Tatar: “Игарасу”
- Telugu: “ఇగారస్సు”
- Thai: “อิการาสซู”
- Turkish: “Igarassu”
- Ukrainian: “Ігарасу”
- Urdu: “یجاراسو”
- Venetian: “Igarassu”
- Vietnamese: “Igarassu”
- Volapük: “Igarassu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Igarassu”
- Welsh: “Igarassu”
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