São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul

Municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Location within Rio Grande do Sul
Location within Rio Grande do Sul
30°20′9″S 54°19′12″W / 30.33583°S 54.32000°W / -30.33583; -54.32000Country BrazilStateRio Grande do SulPopulation
 (2020 [1])
 • Total62,147Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

São Gabriel is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Notable people

  • 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

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:

  1. Irati Formation (Passo São Borja). Age: Early Permian.
  2. Rio do Rasto Formation (Posto Queimado). Age: Late Permian and/or Early Triassic.
  3. Sanga do Cabral Formation (Abandoned railroad between Dilermando de Aguiar and São Gabriel). Age: Late Triassic.

Climate

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

References

  1. ^ IBGE 2020
  2. ^ "Google Translate".
  3. ^ Herói Brasileiro: Plácido de Castro (in Portuguese), Folha de S. Paulo: Enciclopédia Mirador Internacional, retrieved 2016-07-04
  4. ^ Stereospondyls
  5. ^ Mesosaurs
  6. ^ "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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