Alagoas

Alagoas and Pernambuco states were hit by floods in June that wiped away towns and villages, killing 51.

Rains Kill at Least 257 Across Brazil Jeff Fick 2011

It is equally curious that the “São Paulo issue” came up in a discussion between Renan Calheiros and Tasso Jereissati, because both of them are from the Northeast of Brazil: Renan from Alagoas and Tasso from Ceará.

Global Voices in English » Brazil: On the meaning of “Minorities with a majority complex” 2009

Maciel Lopes de Goes, a resident of Quebrangulo, another of the affected areas in Alagoas, said he had lost virtually all his possessions.

Brazil floods kill dozens and leave 1,000 people missing 2010

Torrential rain has hammered down on the north-eastern states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, over 1,200 miles (2,000km) north-east of Rio de Janeiro, since last Thursday causing rivers to swell and at least one dam to burst.

Brazil floods kill dozens and leave 1,000 people missing 2010

"There are places where it looks like someone has dropped an atomic bomb," Teotonio Vilela Filho, the governor of Alagoas state, one of the two affected regions, told the O Globo newspaper.

Brazil floods kill dozens and leave 1,000 people missing 2010

The Civil Defense department of Alagoas state received reports from local officials of 600 people missing in the chaos, but suggested most were not in danger.

Brazilian Floods Kill Dozens, Food And Aid Rushed To Affected Areas 2010

They first settled in the small northeastern city of Maceió, Alagoas.

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After a brief stay in the city of Maceió in the Brazilian northeastern state of Alagoas, the family moved to Recife in Pernambuco in 1925.

Elisa Lispector. 2009

This ecoregion covers a large length of coastline of at least Alagoas, Sergipe, and Bahia States.

Rio São Francisco mangroves 2007

Because most of the region's forests have been cleared during 500 years of exploitation, many species are now threatened, and at least one is extinct in the wild, the Alagoas curassow (Crax mitu).

Biological diversity in the Atlantic Forest 2008