Ceará-Mirim
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Ceará-Mirim is a city in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil. With an area of , of which is urban, it is located 30 km from Natal, the state capital, and 1,771 km from Brasília, the federal capital. Its population in the 2022 demographic census was 79,115 inhabitants, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), ranking as the sixth most populous municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte.
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- Ceará-Mirim
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- Municipality
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- Location in Rio Grande do Norte state
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- Brazil
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- Northeast
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- State
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- Rio Grande do Norte
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- 724.838
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- 79,115
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Ceará-Mirim is a city in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil. With an area of , of which is urban, it is located 30 km from Natal, the state capital, and 1,771 km from Brasília, the federal capital. Its population in the 2022 demographic census was 79,115 inhabitants, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), ranking as the sixth most populous municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte.
== Etymology == The origin of the city name is unknown. Câmara Cascudo, one of the most important historians in Brazil, gives some alternatives from other authors, with all the alternatives leading to the Tupi language. José de Alencar suggests to us that Ceará comes from the Tupi expression cê-ará, meaning "the parrot speaks" or "the parrot sings". Teodoro Sampaio gives us ceará or cemo-ará, which is "the parrot leaves" or "the parrot's departure". There are also the versions of Paulino Nogueira and João Brigido, who suggest, respectively, çoô-ará and ciri-ará, which mean "truly hunting time" and "white crab", respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ceará-Mirim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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