Recife (bra)

Recife

Recife ranks 489th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cali, Pretoria, and Toledo, Spain. Memorable people born in Recife include Paulo Freire, Vavá, and Rivaldo. Memorable people who died in Recife include Hélder Câmara, Naná Vasconcelos, and Gilberto Freyre. Recife has been the birth place of many soccer players and writers and the death place of many singers and religious figures. Recife is located in Brazil.

Recife is the fourth-largest urban area in Brazil with 4,054,866 inhabitants, the largest urban area of the North/Northeast Regions, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast corner of South America. The city has more than a thousand shootings per year, making it one of the most violent in Brazil.The population of the city proper was 1,653,461 in 2020. Recife was founded in 1537, during the early Portuguese colonization of Brazil, as the main harbor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, known for its large scale production of sugar cane. It was the former capital Mauritsstad of the 17th century colony of New Holland of Dutch Brazil, established by the Dutch West India Company. The city is located at the confluence of the Beberibe and Capibaribe rivers before they flow into the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a major port on the Atlantic. Its name is an allusion to the stone reefs that are present by the city's shores. The many rivers, small islands and over 50 bridges found in Recife city centre characterise its geography and led to the city being called the "Brazilian Venice". As of 2010, it is the capital city with the highest HDI in Northeast Brazil and second highest HDI in the entire North and Northeast Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia