Xique-Xique vs Lawrenceville

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Xique-Xique is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. Its estimated population in 2020 was 46,523 inhabitants. It is situated on the right bank of São Francisco River and is a regional economic center. Xique-Xique takes its name from a cactus, Pilosocereus polygonus, common to the region. The first exploratory expedition to the region was in 1545, and carried out by the administration of Tomé de Souza (1503–1579), the first governor-general of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.

A fazenda, or large-scale plantation, was established Cabo da Ipueira in the 17th century by the Portuguese Theobaldo Miranda Pires de Carvalho. Before ending the seventeenth century a gold-mining group called the Sierra Assuruá settled in Belvedere Island created the 1st core population inhabited by Europeans.

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awrenceville is the name of several places: United States Lawrenceville, former name of Alleene, Arkansas Lawrenceville, Georgia Lawrenceville, Illinois Lawrenceville, Indiana Lawrenceville, New Jersey The Lawrenceville School Lawrenceville, Ohio Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania Lawrenceville, Virginia Lawrenceville, West VirginiaCanada Lawrenceville, Quebec

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