Alagoas (AL) occurs as little state in northeastern Brazil lying between the states of Pernambuco and Sergipe; touching a state of Bahia along a a portion of its southwestern border. A southern border of Alagoas is defined per Rio São Francisco (São Francisco River). Alagoas has an front yard of 27,933 square kilometre. & the people of about 2,818,000. A capital city is Maceió.

A state's title originates sustaining a streams, lakes, and wells throughout along its coast touching a city of Maceió. A coast is bordered by fringing reefs & numbers of ticket beaches. Behind the beaches, another time simply hundreds of meters & defined by steep scarps, lies a stretch of green coastal hills getting plenty rain for considerable agriculture & hardly remnants of the Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Rain Forest) that currently is largely limited to steep hill tops. This is the metropolitan area yearn dominated by sugar cane.

However more inland lies a Sertão of the Northeast region of the united states. A Sertão occurs as high dry area dominated by scrub that is typically thorn filled & periodically toxic, a caatinga. This region & its humans is far-famed inside legend & song. These are a land of a cowboy world health organization is clad cap-a-pie (whenever he is lucky) sustaining super heavy leather to refrain from the violent vegetation.

A economy has been agricultural, dependent largely on big sugar cane plantations with a bit of tobacco. Sugar cane formed a basis for an alcohol industry that is in decline. Microscopic to medium sized tanker ships took alcohol onboard around Maceió's port with considerable frequency during the peak period. Such loads however require place by owning less frequency. An additional local industry is according to chemical products from either brine pumped from deep wells on the fringe of Maceió.

In a go twenty years the tourist industry has found the beaches & Maceió itself has changed from either a like sleepyheaded little port by owning coconut palm plantations along its beaches to high rise hotels. A northern coast, particularly in a area of a towns Maragogi & Japaratinga is beginning to look at a few of this development in the form of resorts attracting population from either either the south & a bit of from Europe.

Cities and Historic Towns (H)
Arapiraca Coruripe Maceió Maragogi Marechal Deodoro (H) Palmeira dos Indios Penedo (H) Piranhas (H) Porto de Pedras (H) Santana do Ipanema União dos Palmares