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Hace 22 horas · Website. www .recife .pe .gov .br (in Portuguese) Recife ( Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁeˈsifi] ⓘ) 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.
Hace 22 horas · The word "Brazil" likely comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from brasa ("ember") and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). It has alternatively been suggested that this is a folk etymology for a ...
Hace 22 horas · Geraldão recolocou o Recife no “mapa” do esporte brasileiro. Foto: Wagner Ramos/PCR Mais uma vez, o Recife será a “capital brasileira do vôlei”. Isso porque a capital pernambucana está em contagem regressiva para receber, nos dias 21 e 28 de abril, as finais da Superliga de vôlei feminino, bem como do masculino.
