São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul

São Gabriel is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

São Gabriel
Municipality
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Location within Rio Grande do Sul
São Gabriel Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 30°20′9″S 54°19′12″W
Country	Brazil
State	Rio Grande do Sul
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	62,147
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Notable people

• Sepe Tiaraju (-1756), Indigenous chief and military leader, killed in São Gabriel at the hands of Portuguese and Spanish colonial soldiers.^[2]
• Baron of Candiota (c. 1815–1894), landowner and military officer
• Hermes da Fonseca (1855–1923), 8th president of Brazil
• Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil (1857–1938), politician
• José Plácido de Castro (1873–1908), revolutionary and military leader in the Acre War^[3]
• Mascarenhas de Morais (1883–1968), commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II

Paleontology

In the vicinity of the city of São Gabriel fossils of ancient amphibians and reptiles whose ages range from the Permian to the Triassic have been found . ^[4][5]

Three vertebrate-bearing geological formations and localities are as follows:

1. Irati Formation (Passo São Borja). Age: Early Permian.
2. Rio do Rasto Formation (Posto Queimado). Age: Late Permian and/or Early Triassic.
3. Sanga do Cabral Formation (Abandoned railroad between Dilermando de Aguiar and São Gabriel). Age: Late Triassic.

Climate

Climate data for São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul (1976–2005)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	37.0 (98.6)	35.4 (95.7)	34.3 (93.7)	31.7 (89.1)	28.6 (83.5)	27.0 (80.6)	27.8 (82.0)	29.4 (84.9)	29.8 (85.6)	32.8 (91.0)	34.6 (94.3)	36.7 (98.1)	37.0 (98.6)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	31.2 (88.2)	30.0 (86.0)	28.5 (83.3)	24.9 (76.8)	21.5 (70.7)	18.7 (65.7)	18.8 (65.8)	20.3 (68.5)	21.9 (71.4)	24.8 (76.6)	27.4 (81.3)	30.4 (86.7)	24.9 (76.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)	25.4 (77.7)	24.6 (76.3)	23.1 (73.6)	19.7 (67.5)	16.5 (61.7)	14.0 (57.2)	13.9 (57.0)	15.2 (59.4)	16.7 (62.1)	19.3 (66.7)	21.6 (70.9)	24.3 (75.7)	19.5 (67.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	19.5 (67.1)	19.2 (66.6)	17.8 (64.0)	14.5 (58.1)	11.5 (52.7)	9.3 (48.7)	9.1 (48.4)	10.2 (50.4)	11.4 (52.5)	13.8 (56.8)	15.8 (60.4)	18.2 (64.8)	14.2 (57.5)
Record low °C (°F)	13.1 (55.6)	12.7 (54.9)	10.4 (50.7)	6.8 (44.2)	3.3 (37.9)	1.1 (34.0)	1.1 (34.0)	1.8 (35.2)	3.2 (37.8)	6.1 (43.0)	8.9 (48.0)	11.9 (53.4)	1.1 (34.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	139.5 (5.49)	132.8 (5.23)	127.9 (5.04)	186.5 (7.34)	132.3 (5.21)	115.8 (4.56)	131.6 (5.18)	85.0 (3.35)	152.3 (6.00)	139.9 (5.51)	128.5 (5.06)	118.4 (4.66)	1,590.5 (62.63)
Average relative humidity (%)	73	67	75	74	81	76	81	81	78	73	67	64	74
Mean monthly sunshine hours	264	219	227	192	174	134	155	166	179	222	247	274	2,453
Source: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA)[6]

See also

• List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul

References

1. IBGE 2020
2. "Google Translate".
3. Herói Brasileiro: Plácido de Castro (in Portuguese), Folha de S. Paulo: Enciclopédia Mirador Internacional, retrieved 2016-07-04
4. Dias-Da-Silva, Sérgio; Dias, Eliseu Vieira; Schultz, Cesar Leandro (2009). "First record of stereospondyls (Tetrapoda, Temnospondyli) in the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil". Gondwana Research. 15 (1): 131–136. Bibcode:2009GondR..15..131D. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2008.07.002.
5. Mesosaurs
6. "Atlas climático da Região Sul do Brasil: Estados do Paraná, Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul" (PDF). EMBRAPA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 25 May 2024.