Sirinhaém () is a municipality in Pernambuco with 39,171 inhabitants (2025). The town was founded in 1614 making it among the oldest in the state. The Mayor is Camila Machado Leocadio Lins Dos Santos (PP, 2021 – 2024).

Access

BR-101, PE-060, PE-064 (via Cabo de Santo Agostinho)

Geography

State - Pernambuco Region - RMR (Recife) Boundaries - Ipojuca and Escada (N); Rio Formoso and Tamandaré (S); Ribeirão (W); Atlantic Ocean (E) Area - 378.8 km2 Elevation - 49 m Vegetation - Forest Subperenifólia and Coconut trees Climate - Hot tropical and humid Mean and high annual temperatures - 20.1 °C; 29.5 °C Distance to Recife - 65 km

Beaches

Gamela beach

Beach of clear water, reefs and extensive areas of coconut trees. It has some bars and Palhoças (tents) offering typical food of the region (based in fish and seafood).

Guadalupe beach

Still almost virgin in its 3 kilometers long. Its part of the Gold Coast Project, created to develop in a planned and environmentally way the potential of one extensive coast area since Cabo de Santo Agostinho until Maragogi in Alagoas.

Barra de Sirinhaém beach

Fluvial - marine beach, is largely used to practice water sports. With six kilometers long, has several sections where bathing is not recommended, due to the violence of the waves.

Ilha de Santo Aleixo - Sirinhaém

Economy

The main economic activities in Sirinhaém are based in food and beverage industry, commerce, some tourism and agriculture especially coconuts.

Economic indicators Population Censo Populacional 2013. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) (setembro de 2013). GDP x(1000 R$).Sirinhaem 2007 GDP IBGE page 32 GDP pc (R$) PE 43.036 183.646 4.817 0.28% Economy by Sector, 2008 Primary sector Secondary sector Service sector 17,33% 27.23% 55.43%

Health indicators PE State site - City by city profile HDI (2010) Hospitals (2007) Hospitals beds (2007) Children's Mortality every 1000 (2005) 0.597 3 98 25

Distances from Sirinhaém

São Paulo 2069 km Rio de Janeiro 1813 km Salvador, Bahia 613 km Brasília 1607 km Fortaleza 662 km Belo Horizonte 1571 km Curitiba 2401 km Manaus 2824 km Recife 65 km mais próxima Porto Alegre 2918 km Belém 1683 km Goiânia 1779 km

See also List of municipalities in Pernambuco

References