Juazeiro

This article is about the city named simply as Juazeiro in the Brazilian state of Bahia. For the city with similar name in the state of Ceará, see Juazeiro do Norte. For the city with similar name in the state of Piauí, see Juazeiro do Piauí.
Juazeiro
Municipality
Municipality of Juazeiro
Flag of Juazeiro
Flag
Official seal of Juazeiro
Seal
Location in Bahia
Location in Bahia
Coordinates: 09°25′50″S 40°30′10″W / 9.43056°S 40.50278°W / -9.43056; -40.50278
Country Brazil
RegionNortheast
State Bahia
MesoregionVale São-Franciscano da Bahia
MicroregionJuazeiro
FoundedMay 9, 1833
Government
 • MayorSuzana Ramos
Area
[1]
 • Total6,500.520 km2 (2,509.865 sq mi)
Elevation
368 m (1,207 ft)
Population
 (2020 est.)[2]
 • Total218,162
 • Density34/km2 (87/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)
HDI (2010)0.677 – medium[3]
Websitejuazeiro.ba.gov.br

Juazeiro, formerly also known as Joazeiro,[4] is a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the northeastern region of Brazil.

The city is twinned with Petrolina, in the state of Pernambuco. The two cities are connected by a modern bridge crossing the São Francisco River. Together they form the metropolitan region of Petrolina-Juazeiro, an urban conglomerate of close to 500,000 inhabitants.

  1. ^ "Área territorial oficial" [Official Territorial Area] (in Portuguese). Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics(IBGE). 2002-10-10. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
  2. ^ IBGE 2020
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ * Lamoureaux, Andrew Jackson (1911), "Bahia (city)" , in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 210