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Recife is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 3,743,854 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the sixth largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper was 1,555,039 in 2012.

The former capital of the 17th century Dutch Brazil, Recife was founded in 1537, during the early Portuguese colonization of Brazil, as the main harbor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, known for its large scale production of sugar cane. The city is located at the confluence of the Beberibe and Capibaribe rivers before they flow into the Atlantic Ocean. It is a major port on the Atlantic Ocean. Its name is an allusion to the stone reefs that are present by the city's shores. The many rivers, small islands and over 50 bridges found in Recife city centre characterise its geography and led to the city being called the "Brazilian Venice". , it is the capital city with the highest HDI in Northeast Brazil.

The Metropolitan Region of Recife is the main industrial zone of the State of Pernambuco; major products are those derived from cane (sugar and ethanol), ships, oil platforms, electronics, and others. With fiscal incentives by the government, many industrial companies were started in the 1970s and 1980s. Recife has a tradition of being the most important commercial hub of the North/Northeastern region of Brazil, with more than 52,500 business enterprises in Recife plus 32,500 in the Metro Area, totaling more than 85,000.

A combination of a large supply of labor and significant private investments turned Recife into Brazil's second largest medical hub (second only to São Paulo); modern hospitals with state-of-the-art equipment receive patients from several neighbouring States.

Recife stands out as a major tourist attraction of the Northeast, both for its beaches and for its historic sites, dating back to both the Portuguese and the Dutch colonization of the region. The beach of Porto de Galinhas, south of the city, has been repeatedly awarded the title of best beach in Brazil and has drawn many tourists. The Historic Centre of Olinda, north of the city, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1982, and both cities' Brazilian Carnival are among the world's most famous.

The city is an education hub, and home to the Federal University of Pernambuco, the largest university in Pernambuco. Several Brazilian historical figures, such as the poet and abolitionist Castro Alves, moved to Recife for their studies. Recife and Natal are the only Brazilian cities with direct flights to the islands of Fernando de Noronha, a World Heritage Site.

The city was one of the host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, Recife hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 1950 FIFA World Cup.

Recife (disambiguation)

Recife may refer to:

  • Recife, a city located in Pernambuco state, Brazil
  • Sport Club do Recife, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
  • Arena Recife-Olinda, a sports stadium
  • Augusto Recife, a Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • Eduardo Recife, a Brazilian artist
  • Recife Cinema Festival, a Brazilian film festival
  • Recife Broad-nosed Bat, a species of bat
Recife (footballer)

Wheidson Roberto dos Santos (born 14 October 1994) - known as Recife - is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Clube de Regatas do Flamengo in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

Usage examples of "recife".

Pan American flying-boat south to Recife, then Brazilian Airways dirigible to Apollonaris, just long enough to transfer to a Draka airship headed south.

This operation will begin when a group of warcraft, containing four of our new ironclads, proceeds south as far as Recife in Brazil.

But he had an extravagantly accurate idea of what the table wanted to hear so he talked on for his father: the beheading of the Filipino thug, a typhoon off the Marshall Islands, an anaconda he bought while drunk in Recife that wound itself so tightly around the mast that it could not be detached until they offered it a piglet, the beauty of some of the horses he left in care of his crew hands in Cuba, and how some of the citizens in Singapore eat dogs, which shocked everyone at the table except One Stab who asked Tristan about Africa.

Northern War-style craft, crossing between Apollonaris and Recife, Brazil, where the South Atlantic is narrowest.

According to local knowledge the Recife de Minerve was nothing but a legend, and not an uncommon one at that.

Port Recife, as it screeched into the atmosphere at too sharp an angle.

But Mark Two had now made several successful deliveries and two more Heavy Lift Vehicles were a-building in the Recife Yards and another at Vladivostok.

On March 3, the Selwa left Oran, Algeria, with a full cargo of crude for Recife, Brazil, some thirty-thousand nautical miles to the southwest.

Herapath, the Captain tells me that we are to stop at Recife, in Brazil, where we may replenish our medicine chest.

He sat there with it in his hands in the guarded privacy of the great cabin as the Leopard lay off Recife early in the morning, well out in the roadstead, with the reef that guarded the inner anchorage the best part of a mile away.

Captain Fielding had brought his ship down to Recife to refit before continuing his journey.

He would certainly be entangled with the Portuguese officials if he called at Recife, for example: interminable delay at the best, and at the worst some ugly incident, detention, even violence, they being so very jealous of a foreign man-of-war anywhere but Rio.

Our sponsors in the Defense Department could hardly tell a desperate major general whose division was headed for Recife without anti-tank guns that rail space was needed for something nebulous but infinitely more important.

The Recife, that enormous barrier reef which blockades hundreds of miles of the Brazilian coast, caused no anxiety to Coke.

The outline was for a book about the time Prince Maurice spent in Dutch Brazil, a collar of land round Recife and Pernambuco.