Mossoró

Mossoró is the second largest city of the state of in Brazil, economically centred on petrol extraction, agriculture, and salt panning, and lately also shrimp farming and renewable energy.
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  • Type: City with 265,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil
  • Also known as: Mossoro
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mossoró Airport and Catedral de Santa Luzia de Mossoró.

Aerodrome
Gov. Dix-Sept Rosado Municipal Airport is the airport serving Mossoró, . Since May 27, 1953 the airport is named after Jerônimo Dix-Sept Rosado Maia, former mayor of Mossoró and Governor of , who died on a Lóide Aéreo Nacional air crash near on July 12, 1951.

Mossoró

Latitude
-5.1904° or 5° 11′ 26″ south
Longitude
-37.3444° or 37° 20′ 40″ west
Population
265,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
MVF
United Nations Location Code
BR MVF
Open location code
6964RM54+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415521288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3394682
Wiki­data ID
Q694845
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Mossoró” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: موسورو
  • Basque: Mossoró
  • Bengali: মসসোর
  • Bishnupriya: মোসসোরো
  • Catalan: Mossoró
  • Cebuano: Mossoró
  • Chechen: Мосоро
  • Chinese: Mossoró
  • Chinese: 莫索罗
  • Chinese: 莫索羅
  • Croatian: Mossoró
  • Danish: Mossoro
  • Dutch: Mossoró
  • Esperanto: Mossoro
  • Esperanto: Mossoró
  • Finnish: Mossoro
  • Finnish: Mossoró
  • French: Mossoro
  • French: Mossoró
  • Georgian: მოსორო
  • German: Moçoró
  • German: Mossoro
  • German: Mossoró
  • Greek: Μοσσορό
  • Gujarati: મોસોરો
  • Hindi: मॉसोरो
  • Hungarian: Mossoró
  • Ido: Mossoró
  • Indonesian: Mossoró
  • Interlingua: Mossoró
  • Irish: Mossoró
  • Italian: Mossoró
  • Italian: Mossorò
  • Japanese: モソロー
  • Kannada: ಮೊಸೊರೊ
  • Kazakh: Mosoro
  • Kazakh: Мосоро
  • Kazakh: موسورو
  • Korean: 모소로
  • Latvian: Mosoro
  • Lithuanian: Mosoras
  • Lithuanian: Mosoro
  • Malagasy: Mossoró
  • Malay: Mossoro
  • Marathi: मोसोरो
  • Mazanderani: موسورو
  • Min Nan Chinese: Mossoró
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Mossoró
  • Norwegian: Mossoró
  • Persian: موسورو
  • Polish: Mossoró
  • Portuguese: Capital do Oeste
  • Portuguese: Capital do Semiárido
  • Portuguese: Moçoró
  • Portuguese: Mossoro
  • Portuguese: Mossoró
  • Portuguese: Mossoroense
  • Romanian: Mossoro
  • Romanian: Mossoró
  • Russian: Мосоро
  • Serbian: Mosoro
  • Serbian: Mossoró
  • Serbian: Мосоро
  • Serbo-Croatian: Mossoró
  • Sinhala: මොසොරෝ
  • Spanish: Mossoro
  • Spanish: Mossoró
  • Swedish: Mossoró
  • Tamil: மோசோரோ
  • Tatar: Мосоро
  • Telugu: మోసోరో
  • Thai: มอสโซโร
  • Turkish: Mossoro
  • Ukrainian: Моссоро
  • Urdu: موسورو
  • Venetian: Mossoró
  • Vietnamese: Mossoró
  • Volapük: Mossoró
  • Waray (Philippines): Mossoró

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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 “Mossoró”. Photo: Marcos Elias de Oliveira Júnior, CC0.