São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul
São Gabriel | |
|---|---|
 Flag  Seal | |
 Location within Rio Grande do Sul | |
  São Gabriel Location in Brazil | |
| Coordinates: 30°20′9″S 54°19′12″W / 30.33583°S 54.32000°W | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| State | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 62,147 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
São Gabriel is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Notable people
[edit]- Sepe Tiaraju (-1756), Indigenous chief and military leader, killed in São Gabriel at the hands of Portuguese and Spanish colonial soldiers.[2]
- Baron of Candiota (c. 1815–1894), landowner and military officer
- Hermes da Fonseca (1855–1923), 8th president of Brazil
- Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil (1857–1938), politician
- José Plácido de Castro (1873–1908), revolutionary and military leader in the Acre War[3]
- Mascarenhas de Morais (1883–1968), commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II
Paleontology
[edit]In the vicinity of the city of São Gabriel fossils of ancient amphibians and reptiles whose ages range from the Permian to the Triassic have been found . [4][5]
Three vertebrate-bearing geological formations and localities are as follows:
- Irati Formation (Passo São Borja). Age: Early Permian.
- Rio do Rasto Formation (Posto Queimado). Age: Late Permian and/or Early Triassic.
- Sanga do Cabral Formation (Abandoned railroad between Dilermando de Aguiar and São Gabriel). Age: Late Triassic.
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul (1976–2005) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 37.0 (98.6) |
35.4 (95.7) |
34.3 (93.7) |
31.7 (89.1) |
28.6 (83.5) |
27.0 (80.6) |
27.8 (82.0) |
29.4 (84.9) |
29.8 (85.6) |
32.8 (91.0) |
34.6 (94.3) |
36.7 (98.1) |
37.0 (98.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.2 (88.2) |
30.0 (86.0) |
28.5 (83.3) |
24.9 (76.8) |
21.5 (70.7) |
18.7 (65.7) |
18.8 (65.8) |
20.3 (68.5) |
21.9 (71.4) |
24.8 (76.6) |
27.4 (81.3) |
30.4 (86.7) |
24.9 (76.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.4 (77.7) |
24.6 (76.3) |
23.1 (73.6) |
19.7 (67.5) |
16.5 (61.7) |
14.0 (57.2) |
13.9 (57.0) |
15.2 (59.4) |
16.7 (62.1) |
19.3 (66.7) |
21.6 (70.9) |
24.3 (75.7) |
19.5 (67.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 19.5 (67.1) |
19.2 (66.6) |
17.8 (64.0) |
14.5 (58.1) |
11.5 (52.7) |
9.3 (48.7) |
9.1 (48.4) |
10.2 (50.4) |
11.4 (52.5) |
13.8 (56.8) |
15.8 (60.4) |
18.2 (64.8) |
14.2 (57.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 13.1 (55.6) |
12.7 (54.9) |
10.4 (50.7) |
6.8 (44.2) |
3.3 (37.9) |
1.1 (34.0) |
1.1 (34.0) |
1.8 (35.2) |
3.2 (37.8) |
6.1 (43.0) |
8.9 (48.0) |
11.9 (53.4) |
1.1 (34.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 139.5 (5.49) |
132.8 (5.23) |
127.9 (5.04) |
186.5 (7.34) |
132.3 (5.21) |
115.8 (4.56) |
131.6 (5.18) |
85.0 (3.35) |
152.3 (6.00) |
139.9 (5.51) |
128.5 (5.06) |
118.4 (4.66) |
1,590.5 (62.63) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 73 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 81 | 76 | 81 | 81 | 78 | 73 | 67 | 64 | 74 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 264 | 219 | 227 | 192 | 174 | 134 | 155 | 166 | 179 | 222 | 247 | 274 | 2,453 |
| Source: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA)[6] | |||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Google Translate".
- ^ Herói Brasileiro: Plácido de Castro (in Portuguese), Folha de S. Paulo: Enciclopédia Mirador Internacional, retrieved 2016-07-04
- ^ Dias-Da-Silva, Sérgio; Dias, Eliseu Vieira; Schultz, Cesar Leandro (2009). "First record of stereospondyls (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) in the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil". Gondwana Research. 15 (1): 131–136. Bibcode:2009GondR..15..131D. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2008.07.002.
- ^ Mesosaurs
- ^ "Atlas climático da Região Sul do Brasil: Estados do Paraná, Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul" (PDF). EMBRAPA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
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