Óbidos is a municipality in Pará, Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. The town was founded in 1697, and is located between Santarém and Oriximiná. It is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after Óbidos, Portugal.
Óbidos | |
|---|---|
Municipio | |
| The Municipality of Óbidos | |
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 Location in the State 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) |
Conservation
editThe 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
editÓbidos is served by Óbidos Airport.
Sobral Santos II disaster
editÓbidos, Pará, in Brazil, was the scene of the sinking of Sobral Santos II in September 1981, one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. The riverboat was making its weekly trip between Santarém and Manaus and 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
editClimate
editThe climate is tropical monsoon (Köppen: Am), with great differences in precipitation according to the seasons.[5]
| Climate data for Óbidos (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Average precipitation mm (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 |
| Average relative 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 monthly sunshine 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), retrieved 2016-05-12
- ^ FES do Trombetas (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-07
- ^ "300 Die as Amazon Boat Sinks". New York Times. 20 September 1981. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Clima Óbidos: Temperatura, Tempo e Dados climatológicos Óbidos - Climate-Data.org". pt.climate-data.org. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
- ^ "Normais Climatológicas Do Brasil 1981–2010" (in Portuguese). Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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. ISBN 0-19-726239-2
- Columbia-Lippincott guide'. (New York City: Columbia University Press, 1952) p. 1362.
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