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5 unusual facts about Fortaleza


Daniel Peixoto

Daniel Peixoto was born in the district of Aldeota, prime area of Fortaleza, state of Ceará.

Douglas da Costa Souza

Douglas da Costa Souza or simply Bilica (born January 31, 1979 in Fortaleza), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

Ediglê Quaresma Farias

Ediglê Quaresma Farias or simply Ediglê (born May 13, 1978, in Fortaleza, is a Brazilian central-defender who plays for Portuguesa.

Erandir

Francisco Erandir da Silva Feitosa or simply Erandir (born August 5, 1982 in Fortaleza), is a Brazilian defensive midfielder.

Sudene

In the state of Ceará, a new perspective was adopted: Sudene's incentives helped form a textiles industrial area, around the capital of the state, Fortaleza.


Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).

Aspidoras

Six species are known from northeastern Brazilian coastal river basins: A. rochai from rivers around Fortaleza, A. raimundi from the Parnaíba River, A. carvalhoi from rivers around Guaramiranga, Ceará State, A. maculosus from the Itapicuru River, A. menezesi from the Jaguaribe River, and A. spilotus from the Acaráu River.

Colégio Militar

The Portuguese Colégio Militar gave birth to a net of twelve military schools in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Juíz de Fora, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Brasília and Campo Grande) built in cooperation with the Portuguese experience of a centenary school with high levels of success.

Francisco José Pinheiro

He was also secretary of region IV in Fortaleza, during mayor Luizianne Lins' first administration.

José Maria Neves

From August 12 to August 16, 2005, he visited eight state capitals of Brazil including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Goiânia, Recife, Maceió, João Pessoa, Natal and Fortaleza.

Juninho Cearense

Born in Fortaleza, Ceará as Regilson Saboya Monteiro Jr., he chose Juninho as his artist name, a diminutive form of Júnior.

NoB

In July 2007, he sang with Hironobu Kageyama, Masaaki Endoh, Yoko Ishida, Kouji Wada and MoJo at Anime Friends, the biggest anime convention in Latin America, in Brazil; it was his first time in the county and he has gone back there to perform several times not only at Anime Friends, but also in other events in other cities, such as Fortaleza and Brasília.

Roberto Cláudio

Roberto Cláudio (as he is known in politics) is a doctor, graduated from the Federal University of Ceará, in Fortaleza, and has a PhD degree in Public Health from the University of Arizona, in the USA.


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