Sobradinho (Disambiguation)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sobradinho is an Administrative Region (RA-V) of the Federal District of Brazil. It is grouped as a satellite city of the Brazilian capital, Brasília. The area is 569.37 km² and it is located 22.1 km. northeast of Brasília. The population was 157,577 in 2004. The drainage area is made up of the watercourses that form the basins of the Maranhão River, which flows north to join the Tocantins and the São Bartolomeu River, which flows south to join the Corumbá, a tributary of the Paranaíba. Sobradinho began with a ranch of that name belonging to the town of Formosa, Goiás. According to popular history the name came from the existence of an old cross of built long before 1850, along the banks of a stream near the ranch. On one of the arms of the cross were two little bird nests of a bird called joão de barro, one on top of the other, forming a little two storey house--a sobradinho in Portuguese.

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