Toritama
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Toritama | |
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Municipality | |
| The Municipality of Toritama | |
 Flag | |
| Nickname: "Capital do Jeans" (Capital of Jeans ) | |
 Location of Toritama in the State of Pernambuco | |
| Coordinates: 07°58′56″S 36°03′03″W / 7.98222°S 36.05083°W | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Region | Northeast |
| State |  Pernambuco |
| Founded | December 29, 1953 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Edilson Tavares da Silva (PMDB) |
| Area | |
• Total | 30.930 km2 (11.942 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 349 m (1,145 ft) |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 46,164 |
| • Density | 1,492.5/km2 (3,865.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
| HDI (2010) | 0.618 – medium[2] |
Toritama is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, in the mesoregion of Agreste Pernambucano. It is located at an altitude of 349 m, and it is 153 km west of the capital Recife. In 2020 it has an estimated population of 46,164 and an area of 25.7 km2, which makes it the smallest municipality of Pernambuco, if Fernando de Noronha is not taken into account. Toritama is best knowns for its production and sale of textiles, in particular jeans.
In the middle of the 19th century, Toritama was a cattle farm on the left bank of the Capibaribe River. The name Toritama comes from the indigenous words tori ("stone") and tama ("region"), in allusion to the 30-m tall stones that give the impression of a tower on the right bank of the Capibaribe. The area became a municipality on December 29, 1953; before that it consisted of the districts of Vertentes and Taquaritinga do Norte. The municipality had as its first provisional administrators Joaquim Aurélio Correia de Araújo and Antônio Manoel da Silva. The first elected mayor was José Jota de Araújo, three and a half years after the municipality's creation.
Tourism
Toritama has also made an effort to increase its tourism potential. Outside of the market square, 70 percent of the vehicles have license plates from another city in Brazil.
