Uruana

Uruana
State	Goiás
Area:	522.1 km²
Population:	13,712 (IBGE 2007)
Elevation:	586 m
Postcode (CEP):	76335-000
IBGE statistical microregion:	006 Ceres Microregion
Became a city:	1948
Mayor:	Divan José Resende
Distance to Goiânia:	159 km
Website:	none
Coordinates:	15°29′54″S 49°41′27″W

Location of Uruana in the state of Goiás

Uruana is a small city and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. It is known statewide as the watermelon capital of the state.

Location

Uruana is located 36 km. southwest of Ceres. It is 25 km. west of the highway junction with BR-153 at Rianápolis.

• Highway access from Goiânia: GO-070 / Goianira / Inhumas / Itauçu / GO-154 / Itaguaru / Uruíta. Uruana is 25 km west of BR-153. See Seplan

Uruana has boundaries with:

• North: Carmo do Rio Verde
• South: Itaberaí and Itaguaru
• East: Rianápolis and Jaraguá
• West: Heitoraí and Itapuranga

Uruana is located on the east bank of the Rio Uru. The most important rivers are the Uru, das Almas, and the Sucuri. The Uru provides water for the town and forms the dividing line between Uruana and Itapuranga and Carmo do Rio Verde

Demographics

• Population density: 4.35 inhab/km² (2007)
• Population growth rate: -0.46%
• Population in 1980: 7,138
• Population in 2007: 13,712
• Urban population in 2007: 11,822
• Rural population in 2007: 1,890
• Population in 2008: 12,827
• Urban population in 2008: 10,979
• Rural population in 2008: 1,848

Economic information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. There were 23 industrial units (2006), 124 retail units (2007), and 02 banking establishments (2007). In 2006 there were 549 farms. Out of the 37,000 hectares of total land 26,000 hectares was pasture land. The cattle herd had 60,000 head in 2006 and the main crops were pineapple, rice (2,000 hectares), bananas, coconuts, sugarcane (1,300 hectares), watermelon (3,000 hectares), beans, manioc, corn (3,000 hectares), soybeans, and tomatoes.

Education and Health

There were 18 schools with 3,682 students in 2006. The adult literacy rate was 86.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%). In the health sector there was 01 hospital with 27 beds in 2007.

• Infant mortality rate: 17.56 (2000) (national average was 33.0).
• MHDI: 0.758
• State ranking: 63 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
• National ranking: 1,656 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)

For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br

Tourism

Uruana is a large producer of watermelon and puts on a festival called the Festa da Melancia (Watermelon Festival), with a parade of schools, producers, and floats, together with dances. A girl is chosen to be Queen of the Watermelon and samples of the fruit are handed out to the visitors.

Climate

Uruana has a tropical semi moist, and dry and warm in winter (cold night and warm days) and hot and humid in summer. Average minimum temperature 20.9 ° C (winter) and maximum average of 28.4 ° C (spring). In summer the average temperature is 25 ° C. In winter, the minimum can reach the 10 ° C and the maximum could be between 27 ° C and 35 ° C. Normally, winter is common to have large temperature ranges. (Temperatures of a typical day of winter: min. 11 C/máx.31 ° C). There are exceptional cases where the requirements may be less than 10 ° C can reach 7 ° C in rural areas due to the presence of high humidity. The reason is that the environmental conditions of the cerrado in the winter makes this, apparently has a desert climate: dry and hot during the day (26 ° C-35 ° C with relative humidity between 10% and 20%) and cold during the night (9 ° C-14 ° C, but with humidity between 40% and 60%). There are times in winter when the heat is intense in the afternoon. These periods can be extremely high temperature ranges, or a night can do 11 ° C and in the afternoon to reach 37 ° C: ie, a temperature range of 26 ° C! In the autumn, and winter, there is common 15km/he winds ranging from 35 km / h, with gusts that may exceed the 45km / h, due to the variation of pressure from the high difference in temperature between day and night . The winds are starting around 09:00 am to 18:00, which provides the increase of thermal sensation during the day. For example, in a morning is 18 ° C with winds of 15km / h, the heat sensation can be 15 ° C to 16 ° C. (Temperatures of a typical day of autumn: min. C/máx.28 ° 15 ° C).

In summer, the requirements are higher, around 21 ° C and the maximum, mild (around 27 ° C) due to rain and dense bulky. (Temperatures of a typical day of summer: min. 21 C/máx.29 ° C). In so-called "veranicos, especially those that last up to 15 days, the temperature rises considerably, reaching 40 ° C. But that level phenomena do not occur with such impact as there are more "veranicos" with lower intensities. But it is in spring that are the highest recorded temperatures of the year, because the minimum may be close to 30 ° C and can spend the maximum 40 ° C. Still there is spring that may be above or below average, as occurred on September 17, 2001, day when the temperatures ranged from 12.8 ° C during the night to 27.5 ° C during the afternoon. (Temperatures of a typical day of spring: min. C/máx.36 ° 23 ° C).

The lowest maximum in 2007 occurred on May 24, day of constant winds (from 25km / h to 35 km / h) which has not passed the maximum of 21.2 ° C (the thermal sensation was 17 ° C due the winds) and the minimum reached 16.9 ° C (with thermal sensation of 14 ° C due to the winds during the night), this time due to the cloudy, with drizzle and closed from traces of a cold front that entered with force in Brazil and the temperatures dropped sharply in the South, Suldeste, center-west and north, taking into account reductions in temperature in Goiás The day after, the minimum ranged from 8.9 ° C to 11.7 ° C in the region. In mountain regions of the brands certainly were 1 ° C to 4 ° C lower than the temperatures recorded in altitude with 600m. The highest minimum recorded was 27.8 ° C in spring 2007 and the highest maximum of 41.6 ° C also in the spring of 2007. The relative humidity in winter during the day may not exceed 15%. On 18 July 2000 was recorded a minimum temperature that ranged between 6 ° and 9 ° C during the night. But the maximum remained high (between 24 ° C and 28 ° C). The lower temperature may have occurred in 1975, but no records to confirm this fact. But according to reports of records of temperature in other cities near the minimum in Uruana that time should have been between 3 ° C and 6 ° C and the maximum, between 15 ° C and 19 ° C. According to meteorogistas, this is winter with temperatures 4.6 ° C lower than those of last year in some regions of Goiás because last year there were record temperatures for heat. The rain did not come tardarão as last year, the year the drought lasted more than 6 months. The rainfall should be started with volumes slightly higher from September and not as the year that happened (last year the rains began nearly in November, which damaged the crop of the watermelon season right).

Uruana was very frosty morning in July 2008, whose requirements were around 11 ° C (with an average of 12.5 ° C) and maximum 27 ° C (with an average of 28.9 ° C).

So far the highest temperature of 2008 occurred on 28 October, the brand reached 40.2 ° C. Already the lowest occurred on July 10, the mark was 9.8 ° C. The month of October closed with rainfall rates with nearly 90 mm below average.

In Uruana is 1708 mm annual rainfall, which is concentrated mainly October to April. From May to September, falling only 91.2 millimeters of rain (the dry season) - but that is years from May to September are registered or 10 millimeters. It is common, from now forward, be 5 months without a drop falling, and in this period of drought (especially in September and early October), temperatures will be common to pass the 40 ° C but can reach up to 43 ° C. Over the years this event will become more frequent, if nothing is changed so that it will stabilize.

The trend is the period of drought increase from 5 to 7 months until the year 2020, due to the process of deforestation done by man, by desertification northern savannah, the increasing temperature, and the diversion of air masses that influence on Goiás

See also

• List of municipalities in Goiás
• Microregions of Goiás

Sources of data

• IBGE
• Seplan
• Frigoletto
• City Brazil
• Sepin