♥ .::Ceará - Brazil::. ♥

Geography

Ceará is one of the states of Brazil, it's in the northeastern region of it. Something like 3°-7°S and 37°-41°W...

Its area is around 147.000km² and we have the Atlantic Ocean in the north... We also have 184 cities and 8.237.999 (+ me) people residing here.

Our rivers are mostly small and there are some that become completely dry in the dry season. The largest is the Jaguaribe, it crosses almost all Ceará.

Copied and adapted with my words from Wikipedia:
The climate is hot and humid on the coast, tempered by the cool winds from the sea; but in the more elevated, semi-arid regions it is very (very, very, very) hot and dry (often above 35°C, but seldom above 40°C (Hehe, I'm lucky I live near the sea), although the nights are cool (Sometimes). However, in the higher ranges (Serra da Ibiapaba, Serra do Araripe and several less larger highlands <- Beautiful places...) the temperatures are colder and vary from about 14°C to 34°C (the minimum temperature registered in Ceará took place in Jardim, a small city in Serra do Araripe: 8°C).

The year is divided into a rainy and dry season (this means we can only feel summer and winter), the rains beginning in January to March (It's raining now hehe, this information is true) and lasting until June (Let's hope they go until June). The dry season, July to December, is sometimes broken by slight showers in September and October, but these are of very slight importance. This environment and temperature attracts many tourists, especially ecotourists. The climate is hot almost all year round (TRUE). The temperature in the state varies from 22°C to 36°C with the lowest temperatures not being typical in the capital Fortaleza but in the innumerous mountains in the state (: Fortaleza is hot, sunny and we have beautiful beaches... great for visitors! Come here!).

Sometimes the rains fail altogether (Like right now... this month started the rain time), and then a drought ("seca" ) ensues, causing famine and pestilence throughout the entire region (Specially in the middle of it). The most destructive droughts were recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries. The biggest one (known by local people as "a Grande Seca", "the Great Drought" ) destroyed nearly all the livestock in the state, and causing the death through starvation and pestilence of nearly half a million people, or over half the population. Because of the constant risk of droughts, nowadays there are lots of dams (called "açudes" ) throughout Ceará, the largest of them being the Açude Castanhão. Thanks to the dams, the Jaguaribe River doesn't become completely dry anymore.
Here is just a small part of it.

A viaduct near my house... Hehe.
Castelão, a stadium, but far from my house. As you can see here.

Flora

Wow...so I understand now WHY you love the rain so much.

Yeah...
Any question?

Hehe...not at the moment from me, but I'll be back when there is.

More about climate:
Caatinga takes something like 734.478 km² in my region and it's exclusively brazilian. This means that most of biologic life from this region isn't found in any place of the world, except Brazil's Northeast.

Caatinga occupies around 7% of brazilian lands. It goes through 10 states (Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Alagoas, Bahia and Minas Gerais)
Its total area is ~ 1.100.000 km². The arid feeling is a description of it. - which in native indian language means White forest.

Appearance

Caatinga looks like a desert, with short rain period... We also have strong and dry winds, which make our dry weather drier.

Flora

Plants in Caatinga are adjusted to this climate, like thorned leaves, highly impermeable cutículas (), juicy stems... All those adjustments give them a caractheristic aspect called xeromorfismo (from greek xeros, dry, and morphos, shape).

Fauna

Some animals from my region:
Blue arara - The smaller one.
Cucuru frog
Asa-Branca
Cotia
Preá
Veado-catingueiro
Tatu-peba
Sagüi-do-nordeste

That's all folks!

Hi, thatha, didn't you forget to mention the urubu?

I say that because I recently watched a Brazilian film called "Cinema, aspirinas e urubus" and all the landscape looked exactly how you are describing Ceará.

By the way, I find this geographical exchange of information very instructive. Would you like to know how others' homelands are?

And the other face of Brazil a "continent-country" like many like to call...is São Paulo. A mix of every climate, every race and every culture you may think of.

Oh yeah I could put many many animals here, you know... I just choose to talk about my state, and it's not everything, I must tell! We have urubus too. Let me put a pretty one here:
Urubu-rei. I think it's the only white one.

I really like all the differences Brasil has, don't you Lilly? But of course not the social and economic hehe. The climate, accents and people are very nice!

Although I wouldn't like to live in São Paulo... I have bad lungs hehe. And my "good lung" cousin when she got back there she got a pneumonia. And I don't need another one! I'm kidding, it must be a good place to live, crowded, but good.

Sure I want Guilão, this is one of the major reasons why I like this place so much. Share your knowledges.

By the way, was that big wave near you?
I could only think about usted Guilão, when I saw this news, but I was lazy enough to look in a map.

Yeah, Thais we have many problems like any big city does, but you know...it's not crowded everywhere. There are really nice places to live. My nieghborhood is quiet, safe, not far from downtown...

But you are right, pollution and chaotic traffic are our worst problems.

Anyway it's a great place to live (at least for a while )

Yes, this week there was a boom in news! 222km traffic! It's like ten Fortalezas long!
Poor paulistanos! And I have family there, and I also complaint about traffic here. No comparison!

Come to Fortaleza Lilly!

I bet every and each "paulistano" has thought at least once in moving to your sunny Fortaleza!!!

By the way...one of my plans for the future is having my own inn (pousada para nós) in one of those wonderful beaches of the northeastern states. Why not?

Oh I know that there are many Vieira people there cheering for that... They already bought their place around here, there are just some arrangements with work and school to be done...

I can continue this conversation all night long.

Wow! sounds great! Maybe I'll visit Brazil when retired (not that far from now on, another seven years... ) and stay at your "auberge" in Ceara then...

You (everybody) are also invited to Lilly's inn Francky!

I'm almost sleeping, sorry I can't continue the chat, I would love to.
This is your song when you retire:

A vida de viajante

Beijos to all lovely cucumers!

Hey Francky...what about building a special "multi-lingual" area just for cucumers?
A sort of Babel Tower by the beach?

Sorry, this is the last post:
Here it is:


A little small hehe, but ok.
Now it's a good bye.
Beijos.

maybe we could ask JP to add it to his todo list
This time I must go! Have a nice Saturday night Lilian!

PS OoOh ...and Thais too, as I saw you didn't log out yet! beijos!

I'm also leaving, Francky.
See you tomorrow guys!

climate of my country is look like ceara climate