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Uruburetama is a municipality in the state of Ceará in the Northeast region of Brazil. Its population, according to the census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE, 2010, is 19,765 people.Toponymy"Uruburetama" is a word derived from the Tupi-Guaraní language which means "land of the crows," by combining the terms uru'bu (crow, vulture) and retama (land).HistoryThe municipality is located in the former 'sesmaria' granted to the Captain General Bento Coelho de Morais on November 19, 1720.These lands were donated to the Father Estevão Velho Cabral de Melo for priestly heritage by Manuel Pereira Pinto, a lieutenant colonel, who received the inheritance of the Captain General Bento Coelho de Morais, his father in law.In 1761 came the first time, the toponym "Sítio Arraial", in a document that Father Estevão reverted the land to its donors, reserving for himself only a quarter of a {league|League_.In 1878, the Fathers João Francisco Dias Nogueira and José Tomaz Albuquerque concluded the current main church thanks to donations from the people.On 1 August 1890, Decree 34 the settlement was elevated to town with the toponym of St. John of Arraial. But the following year, by court term, the council was dissolved and attached to the municipalities of San Francisco and Itapipoca.On July 28, 1899, through Law 526, the village was restored with the name of St. John Uruburetama.