Sao Gonçalo do Amarante (Rio Grande do Norte)

Município de São Gonçalo do Amarante São Gonçalo do Amarante
Martyrs Monument
São Gonçalo do Amarante
Coordinates	5 ° 48 ′  S , 35 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 5 ° 48 ′  S , 35 ° 20 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	1710 (first settlement) December 1, 1958 (town charter)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Rio Grande do Norte
Região intermediária	Natal (since 2017)
Região imediata	Natal (since 2017)
Metropolitan area	natal
height	15 m
Waters	Rio Potengi
climate	tropical, Aw
surface	249.8 km²
Residents	87,668 (2010)
density	351  Ew. / km²
estimate	102,400 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 2412005
Time zone	UTC -3
Website	saogoncalo.rn (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Paulo Emidio de Medeiros (2017-2020)
Political party	PL
Culture
Patron saint	Saint Gonçalo de Amarante

São Gonçalo do Amarante (officially Portuguese Município de São Gonçalo do Amarante ) is a Brazilian municipality in the metropolitan region of Natal in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the northeast of the country. It has a territorial area of ​​249.8 km² (2019).

geography

Surrounding places are Natal (in the east), Macaíba (in the south), Ceará-Mirim and Extremoz (in the north) and Ielmo Marinho (in the west). The distance to the capital Natal is 17 km.

Surrounding places of São Gonçalo do Amarante.

The Rio Potengi flows through the municipality before it drains further through Natal into the South Atlantic.

The biome consists of around 94% Caatinga and around 6% Mata Atlântica .

The municipality is located in the polygon of drought (Polígno das Secas), the states and cities affected have been subject to the desertification towards the north that has started from Ceará since the middle of the 19th century . Characteristics that also affect São Gonçalo do Amarante are general underdevelopment, drought with crop disasters and insufficient water supply.

climate

The city has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 25.6 ° C. The average rainfall is 1252 mm per year. The winter months have less rainfall than the summer months.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for São Gonçalo do Amarante

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temperature ( ° C )	26.9	27	26.7	26.3	25.5	24.5	23.9	24.1	24.8	25.6	26.1	26.5	O	25.6
Precipitation ( mm )	57	98	184	204	179	194	159	89	40	17th	16	25th	Σ	1252

history

Before the settlement by Europeans, the area that corresponds to today's municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante was inhabited by the Indians of the Potiguaras . The area around the Rio Potengi was already settled in the 17th century, and legally it belonged to the Pernambuco captaincy . The Dutch controlled the northeast of Brazil with their colony of Dutch Brazil from 1630 to 1654. In 1645 there was the massacre of Cunhaú and Uruaçu by the Calvinist Dutch of the Catholic settlers. It was only after the defeat and withdrawal of the Dutch that there was a new settlement, mainly from Pernambuco.

In 1833 the structural development was so far that political-administrative autonomy could be sought. The place received the status of a Vila and could be spun off from Natal, to which it belonged until now. A cholera epidemic decimated almost the entire population, which led to it being downgraded to village level. In 1874 it again received city rights, lost them again after five years and became a northern district of Macaíba ( Distrito de Felipe Camarão ). On December 11, 1958, Law No. 2.323 spun off the municipality from Macaíba and raised it to the self-governing Município de São Gonçalo do Amarante .

The patron saint of the present day town, as well as other cities in Brazil, was Gonçalo de Amarante (1187–1262), a canonized Portuguese church patron.

Demographics

According to the 2010 IBGE census, the population was 87,668. The number was estimated by the IBGE on July 1, 2019 at 102,400 residents, the population density increased from 357 in 2010 to 407 Ew. per km² in 2018.

In 2010 it was distributed to 74,099 people in the populated area, the urban area , and to 13,569 people in the extensive rural and forest areas.

Composition by ethnic group and distribution

group	Number 2000	Number 2010	annotation	Urban 2000	Rural 2000	Urban 2010	Rural 2010
Pardos (mixed race)	44,688	51,972	Mulattos , mestizos	6,120	38,568	41,942	10,030
Brancos	19,128	27,321	Whites, descendants of Europeans	2,540	25,044	16,587	2,277
Pretus	5,055	7.184	black	964	4,092	6,084	1,100
Amarelos	30th	1,152	Asians	0	30th	1,001	151
Indigenous people	182	39	indigenous population	117	64	28	12
without specification	352	0		56	276	0	0

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE. Population composition source:

Population development

Source:

City administration

City politics is carried out by the city prefecture ( prefeitura municipal ), consisting of the mayor and his cabinet secretaries, and a city council ( câmara municipal ) made up of 17 elected city councilors ( vereadores ).

In the local elections in Brazil in 2016 , Paulo Emidio de Medeiros of the Partido da República (PR), now renamed Partido Liberal (PL), was elected city prefect for the period from 2017 to 2020.

sons and daughters of the town

• Ademilde Fonseca (1921–2012), singer

Web links

Commons : São Gonçalo do Amarante  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IBGE : São Gonçalo do Amarante - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved July 5, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Saneamento Básico em São Gonçalo do Amarante, RN. In: infosanbas.org.br. Infosanbas, accessed July 7, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Climate data , accessed July 7, 2019.
4. ↑ História de São Gonçalo do Amarante. In: gov.br. Prefeitura de São Gonçalo do Amarante, accessed July 6, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
5. ↑ São Gonçalo do Amarante - História. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed July 6, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
6. ↑ Query of the SIDRA database of the IBGE, Table 2093 for São Gonçalo do Amarante .
7. ↑ Censos demográficos do IBGE (1872-2010). Evolução da divisão territorial do Brasil 1872-2010. On-line; PDF; 1.3 MB.
8. ↑ Lei Orgânica do Município de São Gonçalo do Amarante. Câmara Municipal de São Gonçalo do Amarante, archived from the original on July 9, 2015 ; Retrieved July 7, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
9. ^ Paulinho 22 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed July 7, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).