Maceió

[mah-sey-aw]

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of Alagoas, in E Brazil.

Maceió

/ maseˈjɔ /

noun

1. a port in NE Brazil, capital of Alagôas state, on the Atlantic. Pop: 1 137 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

She lives in Maceió, a coastal city in north-eastern Brazil, where 75% of the cases of congenital Zika virus syndrome in the country were registered.

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She started taking care of her grandson Erik, who has congenital Zika syndrome, after her son was murdered in their neighbourhood on the outskirts of Maceió.

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According to the Brazilian Senate’s website, some 200,000 people in Maceio were affected by the company’s mining activities.

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Troubles in Maceio began a year earlier, when large cracks first appeared on the surface.

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Around 200,000 people in the Alagoas state’s capital of Maceio were affected by the excessive extraction of rock salt, according to the Brazil Senate’s website.

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