Jaboatão dos Guararapes

Jaboatão dos Guararapes is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and part of the Recife metropolitan area, lying just south of Recife. Its article gives a population of 706,867 for 2020, which made it the second most populous city of Pernambuco and the twenty seventh in Brazil. It is an important industrial centre, hosting companies such as Unilever and Coca-Cola. The city is bordered by Recife in the north, Cabo de Santo Agostinho in the south, Moreno in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east, and it has three urban beaches: Piedade, Candeias and Barra de Jangada. The area is 256.073 square kilometres at an elevation of 76 metres, with a hot, humid tropical climate. It was founded on 4 May 1593 by Bento Luiz Figueira, the third owner of the Engenho São João Baptista, and the Second Battle of Guararapes, in which the people of Pernambuco expelled the Dutch, took place in the city. It rose to village status in 1873 and to city status in 1884.