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Granito

municipality of Pernambuco State, Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2102421
Source-derived summary

Granito (Central northeastern portuguese pronunciation: [ɡɾɐ̃ˈnitŭ]) (Granite) is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2025, according with IBGE was 7,217 inhabitants and the total area is 521.69 square kilometres (201.43 mi2).

Geography

State - Pernambuco

Region - Sertão Pernambucano

Boundaries - Exu and Moreilândia (N); Parnamirim (S); Serrita (E); Bodocó (W).

Area - 521.86 km2

Elevation - 447 m

Hydrography - Brigida River

Vegetation - Caatinga

Climate - semi arid - (Sertão) hot

Annual average temperature - 25.4 c

Distance to Recife - 592 km

Economy

The main economic activities in Granito are based in agribusiness, especially creation of cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, chickens; and plantations of corn.

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The public source identifies “Granito” as municipality of Pernambuco State, Brazil. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Granito, municipality and Pernambuco.

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—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Granito, municipality and Pernambuco providing the first useful test.
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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 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2102421. Authority coordinates are -7.716, -39.615. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from Granito” 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.