Santa Filomena, Pernambuco

Santa Filomena is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2008, according with IBGE was 14.694 inhabitants[1] and the total area is 1005.06 km².

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Geography
  • State - Pernambuco
  • Region - Sertão Pernambucano
  • Boundaries - Ouricuri (N); Dormentes (S); Santa Cruz (E); Piaui state (W)
  • Area - 1005.06 km²
  • Elevation - 630 m
  • Hydrography - Brigida and Garças rivers
  • Vegetation - Caatinga
  • Climate - semi arid- hot and dry
  • Annual average temperature - 23.9 c
  • Distance to Recife - 717 km

Economy

The main economic activity in Santa Filomena is agribusiness, especially farming of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, donkeys, chickens; and plantations of manioc and beans.

Economic Indicators
Population GDP x(1000 R$).[2] GDP pc (R$) PE
14.694 32.214 2.341 0.058%

Economy by Sector 2006

Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector
15.11% 7.69% 77.20%

Health Indicators

[3]

HDI (2000) Hospitals (2007) Hospitals beds (2007) Children's Mortality every 1000 (2005)
0.582 --- --- 27.9

References
  1. http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/estimativa2009/POP2009_DOU.pdf IBGE Population 2009 Santa Filomena, page 34]
  2. Santa Filomena 2007 GDP IBGE page 32 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. PE State site - City by city profile


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