Arapiraca is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

located in the center of the

Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

Alagoas Alagoas (, ) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. ...

, some from the state capital,

Maceió Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form l ...

. It was founded in 1924. , it has a population of 214.006, IBGE – but IBGE estimated 233,047 inhabitants for 2020. Arapiraca is the second largest city in Alagoas, and is known mostly for its production of

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

, hence its nickname of "The Brazilian Tobacco Capital".

Neighboring municipalities

Clockwise from the north: * north:

Igaci Igaci is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. It has an area of 334.346 square kilometres (129.091 sq mi). The climate is tropical savanna climate. As of 2020 the estimated population was 25,613. Geography Igaci is in the state of ...

* north-north-east: Craíbas * north-east: Coité do Nóia * east: Limoeiro de Anadia * south-east: Junqueiro * south-south-east: São Sebastião * south: Feira Grande * south-west: Lagoa da Canoa

Sports

Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, commonly referred to as ASA de Arapiraca or ASA, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Arapiraca, Alagoas. It competes in the Série D, the fourth tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the C ...

, better known as ASA, is the city's football club. The club plays its home matches at the

Estádio Municipal Coaracy da Mata Fonseca Estádio Municipal Coaracy da Mata Fonseca, also known as Fumeirão, is a stadium in Arapiraca, Brazil. It has a capacity of 17,000 spectators. It is the home of Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C The Cam ...

References

Municipalities in Alagoas Populated places established in 1924 {{Alagoas-geo-stub