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Curral Velho, Paraíba

municipality of Paraíba state, Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2010383 ↗
Source-derived summary

Curral Velho is a municipality in the micro-region of Itaporanga in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. The population is 2,512 (2020 est.) in an area of 222.96 km². The elevation is 338 m.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Curral Velho, Paraíba” is municipality of Paraíba state, Brazil. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Curral, Velho and Paraíba, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Curral, Velho and Paraíba is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2010383. Authority coordinates are -7.581, -38.198. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Curral Velho, Paraíba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.