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Municipality of Pernambuco, Brazil

São Lourenço da Mata

São Lourenço da Mata is a city located in the greater Recife metropolitan area in the state of Pernambuco, with a population of 111,249 inhabitants.

São Lourenço da Mata
São Lourenço da Mata · Federação Pernambucana de Futebol from Brasil
The place

São Lourenço da Mata is a city located in the greater Recife metropolitan area in the state of Pernambuco, with a population of 111,249 inhabitants. The city was one of the hosts of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The new Arena Pernambuco is set to boost the local economy with the construction of a new stadium, flats, car parks, hospital, technical school, shopping center, integrated metro-bus station, and road improvements.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around São Lourenço da Mata

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Arena Cidade da Copa

    Arena Pernambuco, officially named Estádio Governador Carlos Wilson Campos, is a multi-use stadium with a capacity of 45,440 spectators located in the western suburbs of the Recife metropolitan area, in São Lourenço da Mata, Brazil. It is mostly used for football matches and was notably used to host some matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

    4.4 km · stadium · Wikipedia

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Getting to São Lourenço da Mata

Airports
Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre (REC), 17 km · Presidente Castro Pinto (JPA), 95 km · Zumbi dos Palmares (MCZ), 188 km
  • João Pessoa → São Lourenço da Mata
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · R$34–45
  • Maceió → São Lourenço da Mata
    201 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · R$75–95
  • Natal → São Lourenço da Mata
    246 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · R$80–105
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for São Lourenço da Mata

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for São Lourenço da Mata. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom there you can take an intercity bus or shared ride with Blablacar to Recife.
  • Get inHourly from João Pessoa From Maceió from R$80 (April 2021) Especially from Maceió and Natal you can get a better price from the frequent shared rides.

From Wikivoyage: Recife, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

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  2. 02
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    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

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  3. 03
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    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

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  4. 04
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

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  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    3,048 km

If you know how people move in São Lourenço da Mata – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to São Lourenço da Mata

São Lourenço da Mata is 12 km from Jaboatão dos Guararapes, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Camaragibemunicipality of Pernambuco State, Brazil4.7 km
  • Alberto MaiaNeighborhood of the municipality of Camaragibe, Pernambuco, Brazil2.7 km