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Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. It has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.8% of the Brazilian GDP. It is made up of 102 municipalities and its most populous cities are Maceió, Arapiraca, Palmeira dos Índios, Rio Largo, Penedo, União dos Palmares, São Miguel dos Campos, Santana do Ipanema, Delmiro Gouveia, Coruripe, Marechal Deodoro, and Campo Alegre.
Coruripe is a municipality located in the southern coast of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 57,294 (2020) and its area is 913 km². It is the largest municipality in Alagoas by area, but among the largest municipalities of each Brazilian state, it is the smallest. It is situated at the edge of Coruripe river.
Marechal Deodoro is a municipality and an important tourist center of Alagoas, Brazil. Its population is 52,380 (2020) and its area is 334 km². The town was the first capital of Alagoas state.
Cacimbinhas is a municipality in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 10,889 (2020) and its area is 273 km².
Cajueiro is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 21,331 (2020) and its area is 124 km². Its name comes from the Portuguese for the cashew tree — in the 19th century, a village began to form around such a tree, near the banks of the Paraíba river.
Estrela de Alagoas is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 18,255 (2020) and its area is 264 km².
Feliz Deserto is a municipality located in the south of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 4,779 (2020) and its area is 92 km².
Igreja Nova is a municipality located in the south of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 24,586 (2020) and its area is 429 km2.
Monteirópolis is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 7,165 (2020) and its area is 86 km².
Olho d'Água Grande is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population is 5,128 (2020) and its area is 119 km².
Santa Luzia do Norte is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population was 7,320 (2020) and its area is 29 km², which makes it the smallest municipality of Alagoas.
Santana do Mundaú is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population peaked at 11,235 in 2005 and was 10,687 in 2020. Its area is 224 square kilometres (86 sq mi).
São Brás is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population was 6,969 (2020) and its area is 140 km².
Grandmother's Bay 219 is an Indian reserve of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan. Located on Otter Lake, part of the Churchill River system, it is 77 kilometers northeast of Lac la Ronge. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 342 living in 101 of its 115 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 44 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community.
Bom Conselho is a city in northeastern Brazil, in the state of Pernambuco. It lies in the mesoregion of Agreste of Pernambuco and has 786.2 sq/km of total area.
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The Pará-class monitors were a group of six wooden-hulled ironclad monitors named after Brazilian provinces and built in Brazil for the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. The first three ships finished, Pará, Alagoas and Rio Grande, participated in the Passage of Humaitá in February 1868. Afterwards the remaining ships joined the first three and they all provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war. The ships were split between the newly formed Upper Uruguay and Mato Grosso Flotillas after the war. Alagoas was transferred to Rio de Janeiro in the 1890s and participated in the Fleet Revolt of 1893–94.
The Brazilian monitor Alagoas was the third ship of the Pará-class river monitors built for the Imperial Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s. Alagoas participated in the Passage of Humaitá on 19 February 1868 and provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war. The ship was assigned to the Upper Uruguay flotilla after the war. Alagoas was transferred to Rio de Janeiro in the 1890s and participated in the Navy Revolt of 1893–94. The ship was scrapped in 1900.
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