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Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

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Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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, subdivision_type3 = Mesoregion , subdivision_name3 = North of Ceará , subdivision_type4 = Microregion , subdivision_name4 = Itapipoca , established_title = Founded , established_date = February 3, 1823 , established_title1 = Incorporated (

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 ...

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CEP ''Boletus edulis'' (English: cep, penny bun, porcino or porcini) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus ''Boletus''. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere across Europe, Asia, and North America, it does not occu ...

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. It was founded in 1823.

Notable people

Tiririca Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva (born 1 May 1965), best known by his stage name Tiririca, is a Brazilian actor, clown, comedian, humorist, politician and singer-songwriter. He currently represents the state of São Paulo as a representative in ...

- entertainer and politician

Higher Education

National University of Theology of Brazil National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

(Portuguese: Universidade Nacional de Teologia do Brasil or UTEB) *

Jeová Rafá Theological Institute The Jeová Rafá Theological Institute (Portuguese: ''Instituto Teológico Jeová Rafá'') is an independent non-denominational institution of higher education in Itapipoca, Ceará State (CE), in northeast Brazil. It is one of a significant number ...

(Portuguese: Instituto Teológico Jeová Rafá)

References

Populated coastal places in Ceará Municipalities in Ceará {{Ceará-geo-stub