Barbalha
| Município de Barbalha "Terra dos verdes canaviais"
Barbalha
"Terra de Santo Antônio" |
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 Aerial photograph 2006
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| Coordinates | 7 ° 17 ′ S , 39 ° 18 ′ W | ||
 Location of Barbalha in the state of Ceará
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Motto "Lutemos com as armas da luz" Let's fight with the armor of light |
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| founding | August 17, 1846 as Vila August 30, 1876 as Cidade |
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Ceará | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-CE | ||
| Região intermediária | Juazeiro do Norte (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Juazeiro do Norte (since 2017) | ||
| Metropolitan area | Cariri | ||
| structure | 4 districts (since 2005) : Barbalha (Sede), Arajara, Caldas and Estrela | ||
| height | 414 m | ||
| climate | As, tropical | ||
| surface | 479.2 km² | ||
| Residents | 55,323 (2010) | ||
| density | 115.5 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 60,155 (July 1, 2018 ) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 2301901 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | barbalha.ce.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Argemiro Sampaio Neto (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) | ||
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| GDP | 706,555 thousand R $ 12,005 R $ per capita (2015) |
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| HDI | 0.683 (2010) | ||
.svg) Surrounding places of Barbalha in the metropolitan area of Cariri
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Barbalha , officially Município de Barbalha , is a medium- sized town with a large municipality in the Brazilian state of Ceará in the Região Norte . It is around 575 km from the capital Fortaleza . The population on July 1, 2018 was estimated at 60,155. The inhabitants who live in the approximately 569.5 km² area (as of 2017) are called Barbalhens (Portuguese barbalhenses ). The population density in 2010 was 97 people per km², whereas the area at that time was only around 479 km². Barbalha is part of the Cariri metropolitan area . With five other locations in Ceará, it is part of the Araripe Geopark of UNESCO Global Geoparks .
geography
The landscape and biome are mainly characterized by Cerrado , Cerradão and Caatinga .
The municipality has been divided into four districts since 2005: Barbalha (seat), Arajara , Caldas and Estrela . In the southwest, Barbalha borders on the state of Pernambuco .
climate
The climate is tropical according to the Köppen and Geiger Aw climate classification . The average temperature is 25.5 ° C. Winters are drier than summers, with an average annual rainfall of 1058 mm.
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Barbalha
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |||
| Temperature ( ° C ) | 26.1 | 25.6 | 25.3 | 25th | 24 | 24.1 | 24.1 | 25.3 | 26.3 | 26.9 | 27.1 | 26.4 | O | 25.5 |
| Precipitation ( mm ) | 166 | 210 | 239 | 187 | 51 | 26th | 12 | 6th | 6th | 23 | 44 | 88 | Σ | 1058 |
history
The municipality is the original settlement area of the indigenous Cariri (also written as Kariri ). The place was named after a person resident there, whose property became known as accommodation for drovers who brought herds of cattle from Pernambuco to the region of Chapada do Araripe in the dry season .
At the beginning of the 19th century the area was a parish ( Freguesia do Santo Antônio de Barbalha ) of the province of Ceará , the territory became the Distrito de Barbalha of the municipality of Crato in 1838 , on August 17, 1846 the actual place was founded as Vila de Barbalha and on August 30, 1876 as Cidade by hiving off from Crato to a legally independent municipality. The place officially adopted the year 1846 as the year of foundation.
In 2017, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística changed the assignment to geostatistical regions and assigned the municipality to the Região geográfica imediata Juazeiro do Norte and the Região geográfica intermediária Juazeiro do Norte .
City administration
Executive: In the 2016 local elections for Ceará, Argemiro Sampaio Neto became city prefect (mayor) for the term from 2017 to 2020, who ran for the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB). The legislature lies with a city council (Câmara Municipal) made up of 15 elected city councilors (vereadores).
Standard of living
The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ), was at the very low value of 0.381 in 1991, at the low value of 0.517 in 2000 and at the mean value of 0.683 in 2010.
Ethnic composition
Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (status 2010 with 53,323 inhabitants): Of these, around 38,000 inhabitants lived in urban areas in 2010 and around 17,300 in rural areas.
| group | Share (2010) | annotation |
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| Pardos | 37,610 | Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos |
| Brancos | 12,743 | Whites, descendants of Europeans |
| Pretus | 3,825 | black |
| Amarelos | 1,031 | Asians |
| Indigenous people | 72 | indigenous population |
| without specification | 42 |
economy
In 1999, the light rail vehicle manufacturer Bom Sinal settled in Barbalha .
literature
- Barbalha (CE) . In: Enciclopédia dos municípios brasileiros . IBGE, Rio de Janeiro 1959. Volume 16, pp. 79-87.
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Barbalha - panorama , updated statistics (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Ceará: Barbalho> Panorama. Retrieved June 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ a b Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2018. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ a b Argemiro Sampaio 45 . 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese, eleicoes2016.com.br [accessed June 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Cidade de Barbalha. In: geoparkararipe.org.br. Retrieved June 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Itayguara Ribeiro da Costa, Francisca Soares de Araújo: Organização comunitária de um encrave de cerrado sensu stricto no bioma Caatinga, chapada do Araripe, Barbalha, Ceará . In: Acta Botanica Brasilica . tape 21 , no. 2 , 2007, ISSN 0102-3306 , p. 281–291 (Brazilian Portuguese, scielo.br [PDF; accessed June 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Climate Barbalha: Weather, climate table & climate diagram. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on June 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Divisão Regional do Brasil. 2017, accessed January 28, 2017 .
- ^ Atlas do desenvolvimento humano no Brasil - Barbalha, CE . Retrieved June 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Retrieved on June 1, 2018 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Barbalha (CE) and Cor ou raça).