Campo Formoso

Campo Formoso is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. Campo Formoso covers 7,258.68 km2, and has a population of 71,900 with a population density of 9.9 inhabitants per square kilometer. It is about 248 miles from Bahia's capital Salvador. It is famous for the gems, rare stones and caves that are abundant in the area and it is the host of the cement factory, Cimpor.

Cimpor Cimentos de Portugal is the largest Portuguese cement group, operating in eleven countries Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Brazil, Tunisia, Turkey, Cape Verde, Mozambique, China, Egypt and South Africa, involved in manufacturing and marketing cement, hydraulic lime, concrete and aggregates, precast concrete and dry mortars. The city is surrounded by green mountains, and on the edge of one of them there are four transmission towers which allow the population to be connected to the Internet, TV, cable TV, wireless and phone. Campo Formoso has hot weather with temperatures of about 25 °C.