Arraial do Cabo
Arraial do Cabo | |
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Municipality | |
| Município de Arraial do Cabo | |
 Praia do Forno | |
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 Location of Arraial do Cabo in the state of Rio de Janeiro | |
  Arraial do Cabo Location of Arraial do Cabo in Brazil | |
| Coordinates: 22°57′57″S 42°01′40″W / 22.96583°S 42.02778°WCoordinates: 22°57′57″S 42°01′40″W / 22.96583°S 42.02778°W | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Region | Southeast |
| State |  Rio de Janeiro |
| Government | |
| • Prefeito | Marcelo Magno |
| Area | |
| • Total | 152.305 km2 (58.805 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
| • Total | 30,593 |
| Time zone | UTC-3 (UTC-3) |
| Website | [1] |
Arraial do Cabo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐʁɐjˈaw du ˈkabu]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 30,593 as of 2020 census and its total area is 160 square kilometres (62 sq mi).[2]
It was founded in 1503 by the conqueror Amerigo Vespucci. In 1960 a documentary film was made directed by Mário Carneiro and Paulo Cesar Saraceni about the local fishing industry.[3]
Its geography made Arraial do Cabo an important and dangerous point in the age of sail. Since the Portuguese Navy arrival (1503) until nineteenth century many shipwrecks occurred. Due to this fact (and other biological factors) Arraial do Cabo is well known as the "Dive Capital".
The municipality operates the Ilha do Cabo Frio Biological Reserve, a fully protected conservation unit on an Atlantic island in the south east of the municipality.[4] It contains the 56,769 hectares (140,280 acres) Arraial do Cabo Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 1997.[5]
Climate[]
| hideClimate data for Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 28.5 (83.3) |
28.6 (83.5) |
27.9 (82.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.2 (77.4) |
24.4 (75.9) |
23.7 (74.7) |
23.9 (75.0) |
24.3 (75.7) |
25.3 (77.5) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.0 (78.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.1 (77.2) |
25.4 (77.7) |
25.1 (77.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.2 (70.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.8 (69.4) |
21.2 (70.2) |
22.1 (71.8) |
23.0 (73.4) |
24.1 (75.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 21.7 (71.1) |
22.2 (72.0) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.0 (69.8) |
19.6 (67.3) |
18.1 (64.6) |
17.6 (63.7) |
17.7 (63.9) |
18.1 (64.6) |
18.9 (66.0) |
19.6 (67.3) |
21.4 (70.5) |
19.9 (67.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 82 (3.2) |
58 (2.3) |
67 (2.6) |
85 (3.3) |
71 (2.8) |
44 (1.7) |
43 (1.7) |
37 (1.5) |
58 (2.3) |
77 (3.0) |
88 (3.5) |
105 (4.1) |
815 (32) |
| Source: climate-data.org[6] | |||||||||||||
References[]
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Arraial do Cabo. |
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Website". Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ^ Arraial do Cabo, film by Mário Carneiro and Paulo Cesar Saraceni on YouTube
- ^ Unidades de Conservação da Região dos Lagos (PDF) (in Portuguese), Petrobras, retrieved 2016-04-26[permanent dead link]
- ^ RESEX Marinha do Arraial do Cabo (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-13
- ^ "Climate: Arraial do Cabo". Retrieved March 30, 2018.
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