Juazeiro
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Municipality of Juazeiro | |
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HDI (2010) | 0.677 – medium[3] |
Website | juazeiro |
Juazeiro, formerly also known as Joazeiro,[4] is a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the northeastern region of Brazil.
The city is twinned with Petrolina, in the state of Pernambuco. The two cities are connected by a modern bridge crossing the São Francisco River. Together they form the metropolitan region of Petrolina-Juazeiro, an urban conglomerate of close to 500,000 inhabitants.
History
It was founded in 1833 [1] and became a city on July 15, 1878. Its name comes from the Juá tree which grows in the region.
Organization
Its city districts are Abóbora, Carnaíba, Itamotinga, Junco, Juremal, Massaroca, and Pinhões.[citation needed]
Geography
Climate
The annual average temperature is 26 °C or 78.8 °F. Although it lies on the
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 35.3 (95.5) |
35.4 (95.7) |
34.9 (94.8) |
33.4 (92.1) |
30.8 (87.4) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.1 (84.4) |
30.4 (86.7) |
33.2 (91.8) |
35.6 (96.1) |
36.3 (97.3) |
35.2 (95.4) |
33.3 (91.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 27.6 (81.7) |
27.7 (81.9) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26.5 (79.7) |
24.9 (76.8) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.8 (73.0) |
23.4 (74.1) |
25.4 (77.7) |
27.4 (81.3) |
28.2 (82.8) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26 (79) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20.8 (69.4) |
21.2 (70.2) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.7 (69.3) |
19.7 (67.5) |
18.2 (64.8) |
17.2 (63.0) |
17.4 (63.3) |
18.9 (66.0) |
20.4 (68.7) |
21 (70) |
20.8 (69.4) |
19.8 (67.6) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 69.4 (2.73) |
71.1 (2.80) |
96.2 (3.79) |
40.9 (1.61) |
7.9 (0.31) |
2.6 (0.10) |
3.2 (0.13) |
1.9 (0.07) |
4 (0.2) |
9.9 (0.39) |
46.6 (1.83) |
60.6 (2.39) |
414.3 (16.35) |
Source: [5][6][7][8] |
Transport
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There are highway connections with several capitals of the Northeast and railroad connections to the coast are made by the Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica. The railroad connection ends at the fluvial port of Juazeiro.[citation needed]
Economy
Like its sister city
The main agricultural products in planted area according to the IBGE in 2003:
- bananas: 18 km2
- coconut: 2.72 km2
- guava: 2.5 km2
- lemon: 2 km2
- papaya: 0.45 km2
- mango: 60 km2
- passion fruit: 0.9 km2
- grapes: 21 km2
- sugarcane: 152.53 km2
- onions: 3.4 km2
- beans: 4.04 km2
- manioc: 4.2 km2
- watermelon: 4.5 km2
- melon: 1.95 km2
- tomato: 0.32 km2
Sport
Both the city's professional football teams play at the Estádio Adauto Moraes: Juazeiro SC founded 1995, and SD Juazeirense founded in 2006.
Notable people
Juazeiro is the birthplace of the following famous people:
- Dani Alves: convicted rapist and right back footballer of the Brazilian national team, formerly of Bahia, FC Barcelona, and Sevilla, Pumas of UNAM Mexico City, Juventus, PSG and São Paulo FC.
- footballer, winner of three national championships
- footballer.
- Petros, Brazilian football player.
See also
References
- ^ "Área territorial oficial" [Official Territorial Area] (in Portuguese). Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics(IBGE). 2002-10-10. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
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- ^ "PRECIPITACAO MENSAL - ESTADO DA BAHIA". Departmento de Ciencas Atmosfericas. Archived from the original on February 20, 2018.
- ^ "TEMPERATURA MAXIMA MENSAL E ANUAL DA BAHIA". Departmento de Ciencas Atmosfericas. Archived from the original on February 20, 2018.
- ^ "TEMPERATURA COMPENSADA MENSAL E ANUAL DA BAHIA". Departmento de Ciencas Atmosfericas. Archived from the original on December 30, 2021.
- ^ "TEMPERATURA MINIMA MENSAL E ANUAL DA BAHIA". Departmento de Ciencas Atmosfericas. Archived from the original on December 6, 2021.
- ^ (in Portuguese), IBGE, 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20070109005631/http://www.ibge.gov.br/cidadesat/default.php, archived from the original on 2007-01-09
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