Guaribas
Guaribas | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
| Location in Piauí Location in Piauí | |
| Country | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil |
| Region | Nordeste |
| State | Piauí |
| Mesoregion | Sudoeste Piauiense |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Joércio Matias de Andrade (MDB) |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 4,568 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
Guaribas is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.[2][3][4][5] Described as a "farming outpost five hours from the nearest paved, two-lane highway", Guaribas is considered one of the poorest municipalities in the country.[6]
Geography
[edit | edit source]The municipality contains part of the 823,843 hectares (2,035,760 acres) Serra das Confusões National Park, created in 1998, which protects an area of the Caatinga biome.[7] The municipality is in the Capivara-Confusões Ecological Corridor, created in 2006 to link the Serra da Capivara National Park to the Serra das Confusões National Park.[8]
Demographics
[edit | edit source]Living standards in Gauribas have been compared to that of low-income African countries by O Estado de S. Paulo. In 2003, the city was the testing ground for the Bolsa Família social program.[9]
Politics
[edit | edit source]In the 2022 Brazilian general election, Guaribas gave Workers' Party candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva his highest share of the vote in the country, with Lula receiving 93% of the vote in the municipality.[10]
The current mayor of Guaribas is Joércio Matias de Andrade, a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).[11]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ IBGE 2020
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