Praia de Iracema, Brazil

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Praia de Iracema

Ceará · Brazil

Photo: Joao Carlos Medau / Wikimedia Commons

The short version, from the cited sources

Praia de Iracema is a beach and a neighborhood located in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza in the state of Ceará. Its name comes from the character Iracema that gives name to a famous novel by the cearense writer José de Alencar.

Country
Brazil (BR)
Region
South America
Administrative area
Ceará
Timezone
America/Fortaleza
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2019-02-22

Names in the record

Praia de Iracema

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Source position

-3.71806, -38.51528

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Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.

    CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  3. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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