Fortaleza

Coordinates: 03°43′39″S 38°31′39″W / 3.72750°S 38.52750°W / -3.72750; -38.52750
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Fortaleza
Municipality
Municipality of Fortaleza
Município de Fortaleza
Skyline of Fortaleza with the Meireles Beach
Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture
Theatre José de Alencar
English Bridge
St. Joseph's Cathedral
Castelão Stadium
Statue of Iracema
UTC−3 (BST)
Postal code
60000-001 to 61599-999
Area code+55 85
HDI (2010)0.754 – high[3]
Websitefortaleza.ce.gov.br

Fortaleza (/ˌfɔːrtəˈleɪzə/ FOR-tə-LAY-zə; Brazilian Portuguese: [foʁtaˈlezɐ] ⓘ; Portuguese for 'Fortress') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city—Fortaleza surpassed Salvador in 2022 census with a population of slightly over 2.4 million[4]—and 12th among cities with the highest gross domestic product. It forms the core of the Fortaleza metropolitan area, which is home to almost 4 million people.

Fortaleza is an important industrial and commercial center of Northeast Brazil. According to the

BR-116, the most important highway in the country, starts in Fortaleza. The municipality is part of the Mercosur common market, and vital trade port which is closest to mainland Europe, being 5,608 kilometres (3,485 mi) from Lisbon, Portugal.[5][6]

To the north of the city lies the Atlantic Ocean; to the south are the municipalities of Pacatuba, Eusébio, Maracanaú and Itaitinga; to the east is the municipality of Aquiraz and the Atlantic Ocean; and to the west is the municipality of Caucaia. Residents of the city are known as Fortalezenses. Fortaleza is one of the three leading cities in the Northeast region together with Recife and Salvador.[6][7]

History

Colonial period

See also: Timeline of Fortaleza and History of Brazil
Plan of Fort Schoonenborch in 1649

Colonisation began in 1603 when

Portuguese Pero Coelho de Souza constructed the Fort of São Tiago and founded the settlement of Nova Lisboa (New Lisbon).[citation needed] After a victory over the French in 1612, Martins Soares Moreno expanded the Fort of São Tiago and changed its name to Forte de São Sebastião.[8]

In 1630 the Dutch invaded the

Dutch West Indies Company built a new fortress by the banks of river Pajeú. Fort Schoonenborch ("graceful stronghold") officially opened on 19 August 1649. After the capitulation of Pernambuco in 1654, the Dutch handed over this fortress to the Portuguese, who renamed it Fortaleza da Nossa Senhora de Assunção ("Fort of Our Lady of the Assumption"), after which the city of Fortaleza takes its name.[9]

Fortaleza was officially founded as a village 1726, becoming the capital of Ceará state in 1799.[10]

Imperial period

During the 19th century, Fortaleza was consolidated as an urban centre in Ceará, supported by the cotton industry. With the transformation of the city into a regional export center and with the increase of direct navigation to Europe, the customs building of Fortaleza was built in 1812. In 1824, the city was targeted by the revolutionaries of Confederation of the Equator.[citation needed]

Republican period

Ferreira Square in 1920
Fortaleza in 1935

The city gained a number of new districts in the 1930s, including Messejana and Porangaba.[11] In 1954, the first university in the city was created, the

Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).[12]

In 1983 the city started to integrate the territory of the new city of

Northeastern Brazil, with 2,571,896 inhabitants.[13]

Geography

Climate

Fortaleza has a typical

relative humidity is high. Fortaleza's climate is usually very dry from August to December, with very little rainfall.[14]

Rainfall is akin to all of Northeastern Brazil among the most variable in the world, comparable (for similar average annual rainfalls) to central

Townsville and Mackay.[15]
In the notorious drought year of 1877 as little as 468 millimetres or 18.43 inches fell, and in 1958 only 518 millimetres or 20.39 inches, but in the Nordeste's record wet year of 1985 Fortaleza received 2,841 millimetres or 111.85 inches.

Climate data for Fortaleza (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1931–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 35.2
(95.4) 		35.2
(95.4) 		34.8
(94.6) 		34.9
(94.8) 		33.6
(92.5) 		33.8
(92.8) 		33.9
(93.0) 		34.4
(93.9) 		34.6
(94.3) 		34.8
(94.6) 		34.8
(94.6) 		35.2
(95.4) 		35.2
(95.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 31.2
(88.2) 		31.1
(88.0) 		30.8
(87.4) 		30.6
(87.1) 		30.8
(87.4) 		30.5
(86.9) 		30.6
(87.1) 		31.1
(88.0) 		31.4
(88.5) 		31.6
(88.9) 		31.7
(89.1) 		31.7
(89.1) 		31.1
(88.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) 27.4
(81.3) 		27.3
(81.1) 		27.0
(80.6) 		26.8
(80.2) 		26.8
(80.2) 		26.4
(79.5) 		26.2
(79.2) 		26.6
(79.9) 		27.0
(80.6) 		27.4
(81.3) 		27.7
(81.9) 		27.8
(82.0) 		27.0
(80.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 24.5
(76.1) 		24.3
(75.7) 		23.9
(75.0) 		23.8
(74.8) 		23.8
(74.8) 		23.2
(73.8) 		22.8
(73.0) 		22.9
(73.2) 		23.6
(74.5) 		24.3
(75.7) 		24.7
(76.5) 		24.9
(76.8) 		23.9
(75.0)
Record low °C (°F) 18.2
(64.8) 		19
(66) 		18
(64) 		18.8
(65.8) 		18.6
(65.5) 		17.9
(64.2) 		17.9
(64.2) 		17.7
(63.9) 		19.2
(66.6) 		20.3
(68.5) 		20
(68) 		19.4
(66.9) 		17.7
(63.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 156.4
(6.16) 		187.0
(7.36) 		336.9
(13.26) 		385.0
(15.16) 		229.0
(9.02) 		130.0
(5.12) 		69.7
(2.74) 		20.0
(0.79) 		13.6
(0.54) 		9.5
(0.37) 		9.8
(0.39) 		37.1
(1.46) 		1,584
(62.36)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 13 14 20 21 16 10 7 3 3 3 3 5 118
Average
relative humidity
(%) 		78.4 80.4 83.0 85.1 82.6 79.9 76.9 73.3 71.7 72.0 72.7 74.4 77.5
Average dew point °C (°F) 23.6
(74.5) 		23.9
(75.0) 		24.3
(75.7) 		24.4
(75.9) 		24.0
(75.2) 		23.0
(73.4) 		22.1
(71.8) 		21.5
(70.7) 		21.6
(70.9) 		22.1
(71.8) 		22.6
(72.7) 		23.0
(73.4) 		23.0
(73.4)
Mean monthly sunshine hours 220.4 183.0 172.7 152.8 211.9 219.2 254.2 288.5 287.1 294.2 287.7 274.2 2,845.9
Source 1: Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology (INMET)[14][16][17]
Source 2: NOAA (dew point)[18]

Vegetation

In Fortaleza there are some remaining areas of mangrove in preserved areas, including Cocó Park.[19][20] Ten miles offshore is the Pedra da Risca do Meio Marine State Park, created in 1997 to protect the reefs.[21]

Ecology and environment

Cocó Park, considered one of the largest urban parks in Latin America, is the most important green area of the city.
Fortaleza bay during sunset
Futuro beach in Fortaleza

The vegetation of Fortaleza is typically coastal. The restinga areas are found in dune regions near the mouths of the Ceará, Cocó and Pacoti rivers, in the beds of which there is still a mangrove forest. In other green areas of the city, there is no longer native vegetation, consisting of varied vegetation, fruit trees primarily.[22] The city is home to seven environmental conservation units. These are the Sabiaguaba Dunes Municipal Natural Park, the Sabiaguaba Environmental Protection Area, the Maraponga Lagoon Ecological Park, the Cocó Ecological Park, the Ceará River Estuary Environmental Protection Area, the Environmental Protection Area of the Rio Pacoti and the Pedra da Risca do Meio Marine State Park.[23] There is also, in the city, the Area of Relevant Ecological Interest of Sírio Curió, that protects the last enclave of Atlantic Forest in the urban zone.[24]

The Cocó River is part of the river basin of the east coast of Ceará and has a total length of about 50 km in its main area. The park is inserted in the area of greater environmental sensitivity of the city, where it is possible to identify geoenvironmental formations such as coastal plain, fluvial plain and surface of the coastal trays. The Cocó river mangrove is home to

mammals. The park has a structure of visitation, with guides, ecological trails and equipment and events of environmental education and ecotourism. The Coaçu River, affluent of the river Cocó, forms in its bed the lagoon of the Precabura.[25][26]

The Rio Pacoti provides much of the water supply for Fortaleza.[27] At the municipal boundary with Caucaia, the estuary of the Rio Ceará is covered by an environmental protection area (APA), which was set up in 1999.[28]

Demographics

See also: Brazilians, Demographics of Brazil, and Immigration to Brazil
Race and ethnicity in Fortaleza
Ethnicity Percentage
Multiracial
)
 
 60.0%
White
 
 32.7%
Black
 
 7.0%
Asian
 
 0.1%
Amerindian
 
 0.1%

According to the

Asian people (0.1%), 3,000 Amerindian people (0.1%).[29]

In 2010, the city of Fortaleza was the 5th most populous city proper in Brazil, after

same-sex couples. The population of Fortaleza was 53.2% female and 46.8% male.[31]

The following cities are included in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza (ordered by population): Fortaleza, Caucaia, Maracanaú, Maranguape, Aquiraz, Pacatuba, Pacajus, Horizonte, São Gonçalo do Amarante, Itatinga, Guaiúba and Chorozinho.[32]

According to a genetic study from 2011, 'pardos' and whites' from Fortaleza, which comprise the largest share of the population, showed European ancestry of about 70%, the rest divided between Native American and African ancestries.[33] A 2015 study, however, found out the following composition in Fortaleza: 48.9% of European contribution, 35.4% of Native American input and 15.7% of African ancestry.[34]

View of Fortaleza

Religion

See also:
Roman Catholic Church in Brazil
Church of Our Lady of Lebanon, one of the four Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Brazil.
Metropolitan Cathedral of Fortaleza, the country's third biggest.

The prevailing religion of Fortaleza is the Roman Catholic branch of Christianity.

Religious affiliation Percentage Number
Catholic 79.0% 1,691,487
Protestant
 12.58% 269,469
No religion 5.99% 128,190
Kardecist
 0.83% 17,780
Jehovah's Witnesses 0.64% 13,758
Other religions 0.7% 15,923

Source: IBGE 2000.[35]

According to the census of 2010,

Afro-Brazilian religions, Spiritualism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, other Eastern religions, Esotericism and other Christian churches like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) had a smaller number of adherents.[36]

Politics

Edson Ramalho Palace, seat of the Ceará's Economy Secretariat.

The administration of the municipality is made from the executive and legislative branches.

Roberto Cláudio, of the PDT, won 650,607 votes in the 2012 election, and was elected mayor.[38][39] Legislative power rests with the City Council of Fortaleza, composed of 43 city councilors, elected for four-year terms, responsible for drafting municipal laws and supervising the executive.[40] The municipality is, in addition, governed by organic law. In January 2015, there were 1,659,091 voters in Fortaleza (26.457% of the total state),[41] distributed in thirteen electoral zones. The number of persons directly and indirectly employed in the municipal public administration in 2013 was respectively 31,318 and 4,950.[42]

The city also houses the seat of state executive power, the Abolition Palace, previously occupied by former governor

general elections in Brazil in 2014.[43] historically headquarters of the Iracema Club, which was Ceded to the Municipal Hall and now houses municipal executive bodies.[44] In the city, there is the Administrative Center Governor Virgílio Távora.[45]

Among the institutions present in the city, are the Fortaleza Air Base, the Port Authority of Ceará, School of Apprentice Sailors of Ceará and the Command of the Tenth Military Region.[

Red Cross and UNICEF.[46] Since 1996, a city is part of the Common Market of Cities of Mercosur.[47]

Economy

See also: Economy of Brazil
Central Bank of Brazil in Fortaleza.
Aerial view of downtown Fortaleza

Fortaleza has the largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Northeast Region, surpassing Recife and Salvador.[48] In 2021, the GDP of Fortaleza reached the value of 73.4 billion Reais, the eleventh highest of the country.[49] In the same year, the value of taxes on products net of subsidies at current prices was R$12,811,311,235 and the municipality's GDP per capita was R$27.164,45.[50] The city's booming economy is reflected in purchasing power, the country's eighth largest, with estimated consumption potential at 42 billion reais in 2014.[51]

The main economic source of the municipality is centered in the tertiary sector, with its diversified segments of commerce and service rendering. Next, the secondary sector stands out, with the industrial complexes.[50] In 2021, the city had 848,283 people in employment.[52]

Culture

See also: Culture of Brazil
Inner front of the Theatro José de Alencar.
The art with colored sand, originating in Ceará, is one of the most present items in the city's craft centers.
Dragão do Mar Cultural Center

According to the Master Plan of Fortaleza, the Special Areas for the Preservation of Historic, Cultural and Archaeological Heritage are the regions of the center, Parangaba, Alagadiço Novo/José de Alencar, Benfica, Porangabuçu and Praia de Iracema. Properties of conservation interest.[53] The architectural heritage of Fortaleza in the form of fallen goods[clarification needed], however, is predominantly concentrated in the center of the city.[54][55] The Mucuripe Lighthouse is unfortunately in ruins today, Ceará and Fortaleza were part of the pioneering group of states and cities to adopt public policies to protect the living intangible heritage of their culture, through the Masters of Culture program.[56]

Museums, theatres and cultural spaces

Among the theaters, the largest and most popular are Theatro José de Alencar, São José Theater, São Luiz Cinema Theater, and Teatro RioMar and Teatro Via Sul.[57] The Ceará Museum houses numerous artifacts, including pieces of paleontology and furniture.[58] The Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture is the main cultural centre, and includes the Ceará Museum of Culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ceará, theaters, a planetarium, cinemas, shops and spaces for public presentations, as well as housing the Public Library Governador Menezes Pimentel, Oporto Iracema of the Arts and the School of Arts and Crafts Thomaz Pompeu Sobrinho.[59] The Casa de José de Alencar is one of the Brazilian museums recognised as dealing with Brazilian literature.[60] It was opened in 1964 and houses art collections, a gallery, a library and the ruins of the first steam power plant in Ceará.[61] In the different SERs of the city, the complexes of the CUCA Network are spread, which are facilities dedicated to art, leisure and education, especially for young people.[62]

Lions Club and Rotary International.[63]

The Ceará handicraft has its main market and showcase in Fortaleza. In the city, there are several specific places for trade in handicraft products, such as the Ceará Craft Center (CeArt), Ceará Tourism Center (Emcetur), Crafts Fair of Beira-Mar, and on Avenida Monsenhor Tabosa.[64]

Literature and cinema

Rachel de Queiroz, the first immortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and winner of the Camões Prize.
Ceará Palace, former seat of the Cearense Academy of Letters.

The main literary manifestation of Fortaleza's history emerged at the end of the 19th century, in the cafes of Praça do Ferreira, known as the Spiritual Bakery, a pioneer in the dissemination of modern ideas in Brazilian literature that would only be adopted nationally in the following century, in the

Franklin Tavora, Clóvis Beviláqua and Rachel de Queiroz, the first woman to Be part of the entity. The Casa de Juvenal Galeno is another historical cultural institution of Fortaleza, named after one of the greatest poets born in the city, Juvenal Galeno. The house became well known for its festivals of poetry and seminaries.[68]

In cinema, the most well known name is Zelito Viana, director of films like Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion and Life and Death of Severina. More recently, Karim Aïnouz has directed Madame Satã, Suely in the Sky and Futuro Beach, and script of Lower City, Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures and Behind the Sun. Another current exponent of cinema born in Fortaleza is Halder Gomes, director and screenwriter of Holliúdy Cinema. New filmmakers in the city have gained in recent years prominent exhibitions such as at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival.[69] The most traditional cinema event in Fortaleza is the Cine Ceará (Ibero-American Film Festival), considered one of the main festivals of the country.[70]

Fashion

The main fashion name in the city is the Lino Villaventura [pt], who, from Fortaleza, designed himself nationally and internationally and today is one of the main names of São Paulo Fashion Week, besides being one of the founding designers of this fashion week.[71] There are major events in the city, such as the Dragão Fashion Brasil, considered the largest fashion event in the Northeast and the third largest in the country.[72]

Much of the clothing that is produced in Ceará flows through Fortaleza, which in turn is recognized as one of the most important textile centers of the country, giving the garment industry great weight in the metropolitan economy.[73] Brands of the city like Santana Textiles and headquarters of brands like Esplanada and Otoch have considerable regional influence.[74]

Music

Aviões do Forró [pt], the biggest forró band in the country
Alberto Nepomuceno, the "father" of nationalism of the Brazilian erudite music.

Forró is the most popular musical genre in the city. Bands originating in Fortaleza, such as Desejo de Menina and Aviões do Forró, were responsible for the popularization of electronic forró, which promoted the revaluation of the accordion in the genre and brought it closer to pop music. The forró pé-de serra, however, still holds great cultural influence and commercial prominence in the city.[75]

In Música popular brasileira, some of the names from Fortaleza were Fagner, Ednardo, Belchior (from Sobral but lived in Fortaleza) and Amelinha.[75] The musical tradition of Fortaleza, however, goes back to the composer Alberto Nepomuceno, one of the greatest names in classical music in Brazil, a pioneer in the development of the country's musical nationalism, and therefore considered the "founder of Brazilian music". The Alberto Nepomuceno Conservatory is one of the city's leading music schools.[75]

Carnival

Fortaleza hosts one of the noted Brazilian Carnivals. Its main locations are Iracema Beach and Avenue Domingos Olimpio.[76]

Cuisine

The Baião de dois a typical dish from Ceará.

The gastronomy of Fortaleza is very close to the typical Northeastern cuisine, and, traditional include the baião de dois, usually accompanied by barbecue of mutton or meat of sun, and tapioca which is a pancake made from the starch of cassava. The seafood is another ingredient of typical dishes of fortalezeense cuisine, such as the steak moqueca and the mackerel and snapper fish.[77]

The fruit of the sea identity of the coast of the state is the crab. Shrimp and lobster are also widely used delicacies in dishes such as shrimp rice or shrimp dumplings.[78]

Tourism

See also: Tourism in Brazil
Beach Park is the largest water park in Latin America

Acquario Ceará, due to be one of the largest oceanariums in Brazil, is currently under construction.[79] Attractions such as the Beach Park theme park, located in the Great Fortaleza, Avenida Beira Mar and its bars, restaurants and music clubs, the beaches of Futuro and Iracema and Pirata Bar have placed Fortaleza among the Brazilian destinations preferred by Europeans.[80]

Scuba diving is possible in the area of Pedra da Risca do Meio Marine State Park, a marine protected area located about 10 nautical miles from the shoreline of Fortaleza.[81]

Fortaleza has about 25 kilometres (16 mi) of urban beaches.[82] Mucuripe is the place where jangadas can be found. Still used by fishermen to go into high seas, jangadas can be seen along the way during the afternoon and evenings, and returning from the sea in the morning; part of the catch of the day is sold in an old-style fish market.[83]

Education

In 2016 the Federal University of Ceará located in Fortaleza was classified as the 10th best university in Brazil, 1st in the North and Northeast regions and the best university in Ceará.

In 2010, the level of the education factor of the Strengthening

higher education.[31]

Health

Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Fortaleza, first public hospital built in the city, in 1861.
São Mateus Hospital, private institution founded in 1993.

The health indexes of the Fortaleza population are better than the Brazilian average. According to data from 2010, the infant mortality rate up to one year old was 15.8 per 1000 live births in Fortaleza, against a Brazilian average of 16.7.[84] By 2013, 90.6% of children under one year of age had their immunization records up to date. In 2012, 37,577 live births were registered, and the infant mortality rate up to five years of age was 13.2 per 1000. Of the total number of children under two years old weighed by the Family Health Program in 2013, 0.8% were malnourished.[85]

In 2009, Fortaleza had a total of 35 general hospitals, of which 11 were public, 21 were private, two were

Santa Casa de Misericórdia, founded in 1861.[89] Among the most important public health institutions in the city, the most important is the Dr. José Frota Institute, the largest hospital administered by the Municipal Government, and the General Hospital of Fortaleza, the largest hospital administered by the State Government. Among the private institutions, the largest are the Unimed Fortaleza Regional Hospital, Antônio Prudente Hospital, Monte Klinikum Hospital and São Mateus Hospital.[90]

One of the most important basic health programs in Fortaleza is the Family Health Program, within which the city is in third place in the country in extension of coverage, with hundreds of teams distributed in dozens of care units.[91] The Emergency Mobile Care Service (SAMU) is the municipality's health care service, which serves an average of 200 daily occurrences.[92]

The University Hospital Walter Cantídio is the largest liver transplantation facility in the country.[93] The Faculty of Medicine of the UFC is the 13th best medical school in Brazil, 2nd best medical school in the North and Northeast regions and the best medical school in Ceará. UFC's medical degree is still one of the most popular in the country.[94]

Transportation

International Airport

Pinto Martins International Airport (FOR)

The current passenger terminal of

Pinto Martins – Fortaleza International Airport, located in the center of Fortaleza, was built between 1996 and 1998.[95] The airport has undergone an expansion process, from which the number of boarding bridges increased from seven to sixteen and the passenger terminal has been expanded from 38,000 m2 to 133,000 m2. In 2014, the airport was capable of serving 6.2 million passengers per year, but after the expansion, capacity is at 11.2 million.[96]

Pinto Martins Airport is the third busiest airport in the Northeast Region and one of the busiest in the country, receiving on average 1,500 international aircraft and 65,000 domestic aircraft per year. In 2013, it received more than 5.9 million passengers.[97]

Air Force Base

Fortaleza Air Force Base - BAFZ, a base of the Brazilian Air Force, is located in Fortaleza.

Roads

BR-116 in Fortaleza, Ceará, the longest highway in the country, with 4,385 km (2,725 mi) of extension.[98]

In 2013, Fortaleza had 908,074 vehicles, of which 511,109 were cars, and 229,154 motorcycles.[99] Traffic density at peak times in the city is rated as the fourth largest in the country, with 48% of congested roads.[99] The cycle network of Fortaleza is composed of 116.4 km, of which 78.8 km are cycle paths and 37.6 km are cycle paths. The municipality also has a public bicycle system, Bicycletar, which had 40 stations and 400 units in April 2015. In 2015, the municipal taxi fleet was composed of 4,886 vehicles, including common, adapted and special use vehicles.[99]

The city's road transport system is regulated by the Fortaleza Urban Transportation Company (ETUFOR), an agency of the Municipality of Fortaleza. The collective transport carried out by buses is called the Integrated Transportation System (SIT-FOR), and its operation began in 1992.[100]

The system of traffic monitoring is known by the acronym CTAFOR,[99] which stands for "Controle de Tráfego em Área de Fortaleza" (Traffic Control of the Area of Fortaleza).

Subway

José de Alencar subway station.
Antonio Bezerra Bus station

The Fortaleza Metro comprises five lines.[101]

The Fortaleza Metro started on October 1, 2014. As of 2014 18 of the 20 stations planned for the South Line are in operation, along with 9 stations of the West Line.[102]

MetroFor is the 43 kilometres (27 mi) rapid transit system for the city of Fortaleza.[101]

Bus stations

Fortaleza has multiple Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, lines throughout the city and has plans to extend this network of transportation (BRTBrasil.org)[103]

Bike lanes

Fortaleza officially has 116.4 kilometres (72.3 mi) of bike lanes.[104]

Sports

See also:
Sports in Brazil and 2014 FIFA World Cup

The main games of the Ceará State Championship are played in Fortaleza. There are several association football clubs in the city, including

2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2014 FIFA World Cup.[105][106]

Official subdivision

Secretarias Executivas Regionais (Regional Executive Secretariats) of Fortaleza.
Territórios Administrativos (Administrative Territories) of Fortaleza.

Fortaleza is subdivided in 121 neighborhoods, that are grouped in 39 administrative territories, managed by 12 subprefectures (Secreterias Executivas Regionais). Each subprefecture has a holder appointed by the municipal government.[107][108]

Neighborhoods

People

Brazilian Empire
.
Mausoleum of Marshal Castelo Branco, former dictator[109] of Brazil.

Consular representation

Portugal has a Vice-consulate in Fortaleza.[111]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Brazil

Fortaleza is twinned with:[112]

See also

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See also: Bibliography of the history of Fortaleza
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