Uruburetama

Municipality of Uruburetama
Uruburetamian
Arraial
Municipality of Uruburetama

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Nickname(s): Arraial
Motto: "Um Novo Tempo Chegou" ("A New Time Has Come")
Country  Brazil
Region Nordeste
State Ceará
Mesoregion Noroeste Cearense IBGE/2008 [1]
Government
 • Prefeito (Mayor) Luiz Vladeirton Oliveira de Queiroz Filho
Time zone UTC -3
CEP 62650-000
Area code(s) 5585
Website http://www.uruburetama.ce.gov.br/

Uruburetama is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil.[1][2][3][4] Its population, according to the census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE, 2010, is 19,765 people.

Toponymy

"Uruburetama" is a word derived from the Tupi-Guaraní language which means "land of the crows," by combining the terms uru'bu (crow, vulture)[5] and retama (land).[6]

History

The municipality is located in the former sesmaria granted to the Captain General Bento Coelho de Morais on November 19, 1720.

These lands were donated to the Father Estevão Velho Cabral de Melo for priestly heritage by Manuel Pereira Pinto, a lieutenant colonel, who received the inheritance of the Captain General Bento Coelho de Morais, his father in law.

In 1761 came the first time, the toponym "Sítio Arraial", in a document that Father Estevão reverted the land to its donors, reserving for himself only a quarter of a league.

In 1878, the Fathers João Francisco Dias Nogueira and José Tomaz Albuquerque concluded the current main church thanks to donations from the people.

On 1 August 1890, Decree 34 the settlement was elevated to town with the toponym of St. John of Arraial. But the following year, by court term, the council was dissolved and attached to the municipalities of San Francisco (now Itapajé) and Itapipoca.

On July 28, 1899, through Law 526, the village was restored with the name of St. John Uruburetama.

The village was elevated to city status under the name of Arraial in 1931, under the State Decree 262 of 28 July 1931. However, the name was replaced by Uruburetama in 1938. At the time, the council was made up of districts: Uruburetama (headquarters), Curu (now São Luís do Curu), Natavidade (Cemoaba), Riachuelo (now Umirim) and Tururu, all independent today.

Currently the council consists of the districts Headquarters, Santa Luzia, Itacolomy, Retiro, Severino, Canto Escuro, Bananal and Tamboatá.

Geographical

It is located in the coastal region of the state, with a distance of about 111 km, in line straight from the state capital Fortaleza.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Divisão Territorial do Brasil". Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). 1 July 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
  2. ↑ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
  5. ↑ FERREIRA, A. B. H. Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo. Segunda edição. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1986. p. 1 743
  6. ↑ http://www.fflch.usp.br/dlcv/tupi/vocabulario.htm

Coordinates: 3°37′30″S 39°30′28″W / 3.625°S 39.5078°W / -3.625; -39.5078

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