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Mata Grande

municipality of Alagoas state, Brazil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2027641 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mata Grande (Central northeastern portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmata ˈɡɾɐ̃di]) is a municipality located at the north-western corner of the Brazilian state of Alagoas.

Its population is 25,207 (2020) and its area is 908 km².

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mata Grande” as municipality of Alagoas state, Brazil. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mata, Grande and municipality.

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. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mata, Grande and municipality providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mata Grande”, the useful work is to connect “municipality of Alagoas state, Brazil” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2027641. Authority coordinates are -9.118, -37.734. 2 of 2 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 “Mata Grande” 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.