Ceará

[ Portuguese se-ah-rah ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Ceará

/ siaˈra /

a state of NE Brazil: sandy coastal plain, rising to a high plateau. Capital: Fortaleza. Pop: 7 654 535 (2002). Area: 150 630 sq km (58 746 sq miles)
another name for Fortaleza

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In the early 1990s, the fossil arrived at the paleontological museum in the city of Crato in Brazil’s Ceará state.

The province of Ceara has an area of about 50,000 square miles, and is one of the richest in Brazil.

But the trouble in the Federal capital—a week's journey from Ceara by sea—passed off.

Throughout extensive areas conditions are ideal for rubber production, and Para, castilloa and ceara trees all thrive.

In the provinces of Pernambuco and Ceara a republic was proclaimed.

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