Bom Jesus, Piauí
| Bom Jesus | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Municipality | |||
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 Location in Piauí | |||
| Country |
 Brazil | ||
| Region | Nordeste | ||
| State | Piauí | ||
| Mesoregion | Sudoeste Piauiense | ||
| Time zone | UTC -3 | ||
Bom Jesus is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.[1][2][3][4]
The municipality contains part of the 823,843 hectares (2,035,760 acres) Serra das Confusões National Park, created in 1998, which protects an area of the Caatinga biome.[5]
Name
Bom Jesus means "Good Jesus" in Portuguese.
Geography and climate
Bom Jesus is a semi-arid hot town. It received national recognition in November 21, 2005 when it was measured the temperature of 44.7 °C (112.4 °F) in the town, the highest ever officially recorded in Brazil.[6]
The municipality contains part of the Uruçui-Una Ecological Station.[7]
| Climate data for Bom Jesus, Piauí (1961–1990) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 37.6 (99.7) |
37.8 (100) |
36.9 (98.4) |
37.1 (98.8) |
36.9 (98.4) |
36.7 (98.1) |
37.9 (100.2) |
39.9 (103.8) |
39.0 (102.2) |
39.2 (102.6) |
39.6 (103.3) |
38.4 (101.1) |
39.9 (103.8) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 31.3 (88.3) |
31.1 (88) |
31.0 (87.8) |
31.2 (88.2) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.3 (90.1) |
32.8 (91) |
34.5 (94.1) |
35.7 (96.3) |
34.6 (94.3) |
33.2 (91.8) |
31.8 (89.2) |
32.6 (90.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.4 (77.7) |
25.3 (77.5) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.8 (78.4) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.6 (78.1) |
27.0 (80.6) |
28.5 (83.3) |
27.7 (81.9) |
26.2 (79.2) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.2 (79.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 21.1 (70) |
21.1 (70) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
20.1 (68.2) |
19.0 (66.2) |
19.2 (66.6) |
20.3 (68.5) |
21.8 (71.2) |
22.1 (71.8) |
21.4 (70.5) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.7 (69.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 17.6 (63.7) |
17.0 (62.6) |
14.7 (58.5) |
15.7 (60.3) |
14.1 (57.4) |
10.5 (50.9) |
11.7 (53.1) |
11.9 (53.4) |
15.3 (59.5) |
17.2 (63) |
17.6 (63.7) |
16.1 (61) |
10.5 (50.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 145.9 (5.744) |
150.7 (5.933) |
197.4 (7.772) |
145.0 (5.709) |
28.9 (1.138) |
3.0 (0.118) |
8.4 (0.331) |
5.3 (0.209) |
14.5 (0.571) |
98.2 (3.866) |
142.3 (5.602) |
153.8 (6.055) |
1,093.4 (43.047) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 10 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 82 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 75.2 | 77.3 | 76.6 | 74.4 | 64.3 | 56.7 | 50.1 | 41.3 | 42.0 | 54.5 | 66.7 | 70.9 | 62.5 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 185.8 | 160.2 | 162.6 | 211.3 | 268.4 | 281.0 | 298.4 | 308.6 | 269.4 | 223.9 | 200.8 | 187.2 | 2,757.6 |
| Source: INMET[8] | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ↑ "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ↑ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ↑ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ↑ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ↑ Unidade de Conservação: Parque Nacional Serra das Confusões (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-09
- ↑ "Piauí tem a temperatura mais alta em 96 anos (Piauí has the highest temperature in 96 years)". Terra. 26 November 2005. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- ↑ Unidade de Conservação: Estação Ecológica de Uruçuí-Una (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-04-23
- ↑ "NORMAIS CLIMATOLÓGICAS DO BRASIL 1961-1990" (in Portuguese). Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
Coordinates: 9°04′26″S 44°21′32″W / 9.07389°S 44.3589°W
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