Óbidos, Pará
Óbidos | |
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Municipio | |
| The Municipality of Óbidos | |
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 Flag  Seal | |
 Location in theState of Pará | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Region | North |
| State |  Pará |
| Founded | September 23, 1867 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jaime Barbosa da Silva(PTB) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 28,021.287 km2(10,819.079 sq mi) |
| Population (2020[1]) | |
| • Total | 52,306 |
| • Density | 1.76/km2(4.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−3(BRT) |
Óbidosis amunicipalityinPará,Brazillocated at the narrowest and swiftest part of theAmazon River.The town was founded in 1697, and is located betweenSantarémandOriximiná.It is the seat of theDiocese of Óbidos.The town was named afterÓbidos, Portugal.
Conservation
[edit]The north of the municipality contains part (7.36%) of the 4,245,819 hectares (10,491,650 acres)Grão-Pará Ecological Station,the largest fully protected tropical forest conservation unit on the planet.[2] It contains 10% of the 3,172,978 hectares (7,840,600 acres)Trombetas State Forest,created in 2006.[3]
Transportation
[edit]Óbidos is served byÓbidos Airport.
Sobral Santos IIdisaster
[edit]Óbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking ofSobral Santos IIin September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém andManausand was claimed to be overcrowded when it sank in Óbidos harbour.[4]It is assumed over 300 people died in the disaster, with hundreds of bodies and body parts never identified.
Villages
[edit]Climate
[edit]The climate istropical monsoon(Köppen:Am), with great differences in precipitation according to the seasons.[5]
| Climate data for Óbidos (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.0 (87.8) |
30.5 (86.9) |
30.4 (86.7) |
30.5 (86.9) |
30.5 (86.9) |
31.0 (87.8) |
31.3 (88.3) |
32.3 (90.1) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.3 (91.9) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.2 (90.0) |
31.6 (88.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.5 (79.7) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.1 (79.0) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.6 (79.9) |
26.7 (80.1) |
27.3 (81.1) |
27.7 (81.9) |
28.2 (82.8) |
27.9 (82.2) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26.9 (80.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 23.0 (73.4) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.9 (73.2) |
23.0 (73.4) |
23.1 (73.6) |
22.9 (73.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
23.0 (73.4) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.7 (74.7) |
23.7 (74.7) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.1 (73.6) |
| Averageprecipitationmm (inches) | 261.7 (10.30) |
270.6 (10.65) |
322.2 (12.69) |
278.7 (10.97) |
222.6 (8.76) |
103.7 (4.08) |
75.7 (2.98) |
34.1 (1.34) |
41.8 (1.65) |
54.5 (2.15) |
95.1 (3.74) |
151.2 (5.95) |
1,911.9 (75.27) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 16 | 17 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 134 |
| Averagerelative humidity(%) | 85.5 | 87.9 | 88.5 | 88.6 | 87.6 | 85.1 | 82.8 | 80.0 | 78.3 | 76.9 | 78.8 | 80.9 | 83.4 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 157.7 | 122.0 | 126.9 | 135.6 | 166.2 | 204.4 | 236.1 | 250.5 | 242.4 | 225.5 | 189.3 | 170.4 | 2,227 |
| Source: Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia[6] | |||||||||||||
Notable people
[edit]- José Veríssimo— Writer
References
[edit]- ^IBGE 2020
- ^Estação Ecológica Grão-Pará(in Portuguese), Ideflor-bio (Government of Pará),retrieved2016-05-12
- ^FES do Trombetas(in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental,retrieved2016-09-07
- ^"300 Die as Amazon Boat Sinks".New York Times.20 September 1981.Retrieved5 January2019.
- ^"Clima Óbidos: Temperatura, Tempo e Dados climatológicos Óbidos - Climate-Data.org".pt.climate-data.org.Retrieved2019-03-27.
- ^"Normais Climatológicas Do Brasil 1981–2010"(in Portuguese). Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia.Retrieved21 May2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Harris, Mark.Life on the Amazon The Anthropology of a Brazilian Peasant Village.A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2000.ISBN0-19-726239-2
- Columbia-Lippincott guide'. (New York City: Columbia University Press, 1952) p. 1362.
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