Caruaru

Caruaru is a municipality in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. The 2022 census figures compiled by City Population count 378,048 inhabitants in the municipality, against 314,912 at the 2010 census and 253,634 at the 2000 census. GeoNames places Caruaru at latitude -8.28333 and longitude -35.97611, about 568 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, and assigns it to a time zone that is UTC-3 in the IANA time zone database. GeoNames lists it as the seat of a second-order administrative division. Caruaru is not the capital of Pernambuco, which is Recife. The atlas places it in the South America subregion and treats it as a city for browsing purposes. GeoNames carries a population figure of 402,290 for it.