Ipueira

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Municipality in Nordeste, Brazil

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BrazilRegionNordesteStateRio Grande do NorteMesoregionCentral PotiguarPopulation

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• Total2,253Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

Ipueira is a municipality in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil, in the region of Seridó.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] It is located 318 kilometers to the southwest of Natal, the state capital, and has an area of 127 km² and is located at the midway point between Caicó (in Rio Grande do Norte) and Patos (in Paraiba). It has a population (as estimated in 2020 by IBGE) of 2,253 people, making it the third least populous municipal in the state.

Ipueira was separated from the municipality São João do Sabugi in the 1960s. The name is formed from combining the words iapo (meaning igapó) with the Portuguese suffix -eira. It has a human development index of 0.679 (2010), the eighth highest in Rio Grande do Norte, and considered average by the United Nations Development Programme.

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^ IBGE 2020
^ "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
^ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
^ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
^ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.