Francisco Beltrão
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| Cidade de Francisco Beltrão (FB City) | |||||
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| State: | Paraná | ||||
| Inhabitants:: | 70,139 IBGE(2004) | ||||
| Area: | 731,73 km² | ||||
| Altitude: | 650m/2130ft | ||||
| Pop. Density: | 97,12 inh./km² | ||||
| HDI: | 0,791 (PNUD/2000) 37th of Paraná | ||||
| GDP per capita: | R$ 8 758 IBGE/IPARDES (2003) | ||||
| Estabelishment: | December, 14 1952 | ||||
| City Holidays: | August, 15; December, 14 | ||||
| Climate: | Temperate Cfa | ||||
| Middle Temp.: | 14,1C/57F Jun ~ 23,6C/74F Jan | ||||
| Ethnic group: | Italians and Germans | ||||
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| Mayor: | Vilmar Cordasso (PP) | ||||
| Site: | (pt) franciscobeltrao.pr.gov.br | ||||
Francisco Beltrão is the largest and mainly city in the southwest region of Paraná state in Brazil. The population is about 71,000 inhabitants, which 85% live in the city and 15% in the land. Francisco Beltrão is close to two other cities, Marmeleiro and Renasença. The economy is based on agriculture, corn crops, turkey and chicken meat exportation, textile industries, public services and commerce in general. The mayor as of 2006 is Vilmar Cordasso.
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[edit] Briefing
Francisco Beltrão stays in the middle of the Southwest Paraná, a region with 470k inhabitants, which means somewhat 5% of the total state's population.
[edit] Climate
The weather is warm most of the year, a bit hot and wet in summer with average high temperatures reaching 30°C (86°F) and some cool days in the winter average lows around 8°C (48°F). The lowest temperature ever recorded occurred in July 2000, -5°C (23°F). The highest happened in November 1985, 38°C (100°F). The averega rainfall is very high, around 2000mm/yr. According to Köppen's climate classification the weather in Francisco Beltrão is Cfa.
[edit] Culture
Most of the city's inhabitants are descendants from Italian and German immigrants, which first lived in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, and then come to the region where the city is placed now, by the years of 1940 until 1960. According to some reaserches, 50% of population are descendants from Italian immigrants, and 15% are descendants from German immigrants. In the last years is expect to decrease this proportiondue to the evasion of the young people, that goes study in the bigger cities, and also because of the increasingly number of immigrants from other parts of northern brasil.
| Weather Statistics (1974-2005)[1] | ||||||||||
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| Month | Temperature (ºC) | |||||||||
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| Jan | 30.2 | 23.6 | 18.5 | |||||||
| Feb | 29.8 | 23.1 | 18.2 | |||||||
| Mar | 29.3 | 22.2 | 17 | |||||||
| Apr | 26.3 | 19.3 | 14.2 | |||||||
| May | 22.6 | 15.7 | 10.7 | |||||||
| Jun | 21.0 | 14.2 | 9.3 | |||||||
| Jul | 21.3 | 14.2 | 8.9 | |||||||
| Aug | 23.4 | 16.0 | 10.2 | |||||||
| Sep | 24.2 | 17.4 | 11.8 | |||||||
| Oct | 26.6 | 20.0 | 14.4 | |||||||
| Nov | 28.3 | 21.6 | 15.8 | |||||||
| Dic | 29.6 | 23.1 | 17.2 | |||||||
| Yr | 25.9 | 19.0 | 13.7 | |||||||
[edit] External link
Official web-site [1]
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