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12 unusual facts about Paraíba


Arara

Arara, Paraíba, a municipality in the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil

Campina Grande Airport

It is named after João Urbano Pessoa de Vasconcelos Suaçuna (1886-1930), President of the State of Paraíba (at the time in Brazil, State Governors had the title of President) from 1924 to 1928.

Confiança Esporte Clube

Confiança Esporte Clube, commonly known as Confiança, was a Brazilian football club based in Sapé, Paraíba state.

Edinanci Silva

Edinanci Fernandes da Silva (born August 23, 1976 in Sousa, Paraíba) is a judoka from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the half heavyweight division (– 78 kg) at the Pan American Games.

Esporte Clube de Patos

Esporte Clube de Patos, commonly known as Esporte de Patos, or just as Esporte, is a Brazilian football club based in Patos, Paraíba state.

Lasiodora parahybana

The species was discovered and first described in 1917 by zoologist Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in the vicinities of the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, where it is endemic.

Massaranduba

Massaranduba, Paraíba - a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

Santa Cruz Recreativo Esporte Clube

Santa Cruz Recreativo Esporte Clube, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is a Brazilian football team based in Santa Rita, Paraíba state.

Sivuca

Severino (Sivuca) Dias de Oliveira (26 March 1930, Itabaiana, Brazil – 14 December 2006, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil) was a Brazilian accordionist and guitarist.

Sousa Esporte Clube

Sousa Esporte Clube, commonly known as Sousa, is a Brazilian football team based in Sousa, Paraíba state.

Walter Carvalho

Walter Carvalho (born 1947 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil) is a critically and internationally acclaimed Brazilian cinematographer.


2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

On June 24, 66 more cases were confirmed by the Minister of Health: 26 of them in São Paulo, 11 in Minas Gerais, 9 in Rio Grande do Sul, 4 in Paraná, 4 in Santa Catarina, 3 in Rio de Janeiro, 3 in Sergipe, 2 in Alagoas, 1 in Bahia, the first two cases in Paraíba and the first one in Pernambuco.

Angu River

and it passes through the municipalities of Santo Antônio do Aventureiro and Além Paraíba to its mouth on the Paraiba do Sul near the city of Volta Grande

Associação Desportiva Guarabira

Associação Desportiva Guarabira, commonly known as Desportiva Guarabira, is a Brazilian football club based in Guarabira, Paraíba state.

Atlético Cajazeirense de Desportos

Atlético Cajazeirense de Desportos, commonly known as Atlético, is a Brazilian football club based in Cajazeiras, Paraíba state.

Barauna

Baraúna, a town and municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil

Campinense Clube

Campinense Clube, usually known simply as Campinense, is a Brazilian football club from Campina Grande, Paraíba state.

Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

The species was discovered and first described in 1917 in the vicinities of the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba, from where it is endemic.

Curral Velho, Paraíba

Curral Velho is a small city in the micro-region of Itaporanga in the Brazilian state of Paraíba.

Dudu Paraíba

Dudu Paraíba real name Carlos Eduardo de Souza Tomé (born 11 March 1985 in Mari, Paraiba) is a Brazilian footballer, who currently plays for WKS Śląsk Wrocław.

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Jacu

Jacu River, in the Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba states in eastern Brazil

Miramar Esporte Clube

Miramar Esporte Clube, commonly known as Miramar, is a Brazilian football club based in Cabedelo, Paraíba state.

Northeast Region, Brazil

The festival of São João (Saint John), one of the festas juninas, is especially popular in the Northeast, particularly in Caruaru in the state of Pernambuco and Campina Grande in the state of Paraíba.

Paraíba Esporte Clube

Paraíba Esporte Clube, commonly known as Paraíba, is a Brazilian football club based in Cajazeiras, Paraíba state.

Sérgio Lopes

Born on October 27, 1965 in Paraíba, while still in basic education (old primary school), got involved with theater at Colégio Estadual da Liberdade, in Campina Grande, when he knew a friend called Afrânio, with which he shared his own poems or findings from poets such as Augusto dos Anjos and Gonçalves Dias.

Taubateia paraiba

The species name paraiba comes from the name of the river Paraíba do Sul.

Treze Futebol Clube

Treze Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team from Campina Grande in Paraíba, founded on September 7, 1925.