Triunfo (Pernambuco)
Triunfo on the map of Pernambuco
The location
Triunfo is 1000 meters above sea level, the highest town in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. The city is located inland, about 357 km in a straight line from the one located in the historic center of the federal capital, Recife, and the starting point of all distances in Pernambuco determined, pillar on the Praça do Marco Zero.
Triunfo is mainly arranged around a dam around. The center of Triunfo is situated right on the lake in front of the structure, built from 1919 to 1922, Cine Teatro Guarany. There, the major festivals are celebrated and the youth meet in the evenings after school.
Triunfo itself, as well as to be Municipio Triunfo belonging, several kilometers distant district Jerico, are right on the border of Paraíba.
Traffic
The city is only a few kilometers away from the path that starts from Recife, federal highway BR- 232 and can be reached by car from the Serra Talhada or from Flores coming over serpentine roads. A bus service to the capital Recife is once a day from the small central bus terminal Rodoviária made available. The journey time is around 8 hours overnight. The nearest international airport is located in the greater Recife. Public transport is only a very limited form. Persons and goods are usually transported on foot or by pack animals and horses in the outlying houses. In the urban area, or so accessible locations in the immediate vicinity you can also relatively cheap as a passenger on small motorbikes called Moto taxi can bring to the goal. The central meeting place of the Moto taxis in front of the Theatre by the Lake. Some off-road estate cars near the bus station offer a more or less regular transport to surrounding villages and some sitios that you have to share with many other people and goods.
Tourism
The place is popular with tourists for its milder climate. The coldest temperature ever measured in Triunfo is 8 ° C. The Carnival of Triunfo is famous far beyond the borders of the city and is celebrated loudly by thousands, usually at high summer temperatures. One of its attractions is the " Águas Parque ", a scale in several levels of water and amusement park. The museum " Museu do cangaço " in the city is next to household objects and objects of past generations Lampião, a leader of a violent gang, but which is celebrated in Brazil as a kind of folk hero. In addition, you will also find documents and labeled boxes in German language from the former monastery "Stella Maris ".
There are several interesting waterfalls with the name Cachoeira do Grito, Cachoeira do Brocotó, Cachoeira de Canaã and the largest, multi-step waterfall in the Cachoeira do Pinga region in the immediate vicinity. The highest point in the state of Pernambuco, with around 1260m of Pico and welcoming hosts and is also in the area of Triunfo. On this is an old abandoned transmitting station.
There are simple accommodations, called pousadas, but also several hotels with restaurant and in 2005 eröffneter over the city hotel complex, which can be reached from the lake in the center also with a specially constructed cable car.
More information
To Triunfo is dominated by the cultivation of sugar cane. From the sugar cane is obtained by repeatedly boil Rapadura, a brown sugar mass. By finishing also cachaça, a sugarcane liquor.
The time is not changed because of the proximity to the equator throughout the state as part of summer time.
The calling code of the Código - region in the Triunfo is located (87). All telephone numbers in Triunfo start with digits 3846th
According to lore, the name of the town refers to a derived struggle against lying in the valley town of Flores.
Earlier, the area of Triunfo also included the now independent city of Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde, about 5 km to the west.
On almost all maps published lately a non-existent route of Serra Talhada is directly specified by Triunfo, which do not, and in fact, through the village Jatiúca -PE and the city of Santa Cruz da Baixa Verde PE leads. Due to the large differences in height between the two cities such direct route is not possible.
In Triunfo, there is a functioning garbage disposal, 1 or 2 times per week can be filled with fresh water to standing on the houses water tank, the voltage of the electrical outlets usually 2pole executed is 220 V at 60 Hz Occasional power outages, especially during heavy thunderstorms are expected to.