Brgida City

Jose de Alencar in its romance ‘ ‘ Iracema’ ‘ it describes as Auricuri, a palm that shelters birds that sing. It also has the version on the origin of the name of the town attributed to the Goulart couple of century XIX, that it bought part of lands of the farm of cattle of Brgida of the Virgins Alencar and that after to fix residence in the place, of a it name of ‘ ‘ Aricuri’ ‘ , aboriginal term, that means ‘ ‘ two mountain ranges juntas’ ‘. The Dictionary of Orlando Bordini brings the meaning of Ouricuri as: Auri (clusters of palm fruits) curi (abundance) species of palm that of the clusters of fruits with abundncia. The city of Ouricuri was desmembrada of the city of Ex and originated from a cattle farm, in century XIX, that Alencar belonged to this Brgida farmer, proprietor of sesmarias of so vast lands that they were extended since the edges of the River San Francisco, in the immediacy of Cabrob, until the hillsides of the Mountain range of the Araripe. Brgida de Alencar age of Cabrob, descendant of Leonel Pear tree Alencar I water that she came to Brazil in the first General Government, together with the family Garci’a d? Avila.

Its family had great religious influence and politics in the old Village of Santana, the city of Leopoldina that if became Parnamirim. With the death of Brgida de Alencar, its heirs venderam lands of that soil for the Goulart family who called it farm in 05 of April of 1841. Later, in 1844, the priest Francisco Peter Da Silva bought of widower D. Goulart Maria the ownership of the land with intention to raise a church under the invocation of Is Sebastio. From then on Ouricuri started to be town, being that in the outskirts of the chapel, she is inserted in the hidrogrfica basin of the river Brgida, had developed diverse farming activities. The proper founding father of the town of the o name of Ouricuri to those lands. Into 1893, Ouricuri was transformed into independent city and had as its first mayor lieutenant-colonel Elias Gomes de Souza.

Its foundation, however, happens in 1939, when Alexander Bernardino, judge of the Judicial district of the Boa Vista, arrives at the city running away from a fever epidemic, which was called at the time of ‘ ‘ carneirada’ ‘. The commemorative party of the emancipation of the city occurs in day 14 of May. Today, this city is formed by the districts of Bar of Is Peter and Santa Filomena. Km2 approximately possesss an area of 2,423 and a population of 58.653 inhabitants (IBGE). Its main economic activity is agriculture and its main products: the beans, cotton, cassava, maize, onion, tomatoe; still it has the creation of bovines and birds, beyond the mining. It is important that if it says that 40% of the crude gypsum reserves of the world are located in the region of the Araripe of which Ouricuri is part. This region is known as polar region plasterer and withholds 95% of the national plaster production, that if characterized for the creation of an industrial park in the region, that generates about 12.000 jobs right-handers and 60,000 indirect ones. (Data of the Wikipdia, 2009).

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