Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Jaboatão dos Guararapes is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco, in the Northeast Region of the country. It is located in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, south of the state capital, from which it lies about 18 km away. It covers an area of 258.7 km², of which 23.6 km² form the urban perimeter and the remaining 233.7 km² make up the rural zone of the municipality. According to an estimate by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in 2020 its population was 706,867 inhabitants, making it the second most populous municipality in the state. In addition, it is the largest municipality by population that is not a state capital in the North and Northeast regions, and also the largest outside the Rio–São Paulo axis.
Text: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Read the full article on Wikipedia (in Portuguese)