Agreste

For the wine grape also known as Agreste, see Malbec.

Agreste
Pedra do Cordeiro in the Agreste
The Subregions of Northeast Brazil 1 • Meio-norte, 2 • Sertão, 3 • Agreste, 4 • Zona da Mata
Country	Brazil

The agreste (Portuguese pronunciation: [aˈɡɾɛʃti]) is a narrow zone of Brazil in the states of Rio Grande do Norte Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia between the coastal forest zona da mata and the semiarid sertão. The agreste fades out after it reaches Rio Grande do Norte due to the break of the mountain-chain that blocks air currents from the Atlantic ocean. This barrier is what induces high rainfalls in the coastal Atlantic forest zone.

Most of the agreste is hilly, its hills becoming higher at south, except near the narrow valley of São Francisco River. This land is mostly used for mixed farming, prevailing fruits, of which melons have especial importance. Like the sertão, the agreste is frequently affected by drought, though generally with less severe effects.

Climate

The climate is hot and sub-humid, with rainfall in the area's principal city of Campina Grande averaging about 700 millimetres per year - ranging from less than 10 millimetres in October and November to about 120 millimetres in May and June.

Campina Grande

Climate chart (explanation)

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
27 30 20	41 30 20	74 28 20	94 28 20	118 27 18	119 26 18	84 25 18	59 24 18	24 27 18	13 28 19	16 29 20	19 30 20
Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
Precipitation totals in mm
Source: ^[1]

Imperial conversion
J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
1.1 86 68	1.6 86 68	2.9 82 68	3.7 82 68	4.6 81 64	4.7 79 64	3.3 77 64	2.3 75 64	0.9 81 64	0.5 82 66	0.6 84 68	0.7 86 68
Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
Precipitation totals in inches

Guarabira

Climate chart (explanation)

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
41 32 22	63 33 22	98 33 22	122 31 21	151 30 21	202 29 20	88 29 19	56 29 19	22 30 20	12 31 21	20 32 22	45 32 22
Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
Precipitation totals in mm
Source: ^[2]

Imperial conversion
J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
1.6 90 72	2.5 91 72	3.9 91 72	4.8 88 70	5.9 86 70	8 84 68	3.5 84 66	2.2 84 66	0.9 86 68	0.5 88 70	0.8 90 72	1.8 90 72
Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
Precipitation totals in inches

References

↑ Wernstadt, Frederick L. ; World Climatic Data; published 1972 by Climatic Data Press; p. 99.
↑ Wernstadt, Frederick L. ; World Climatic Data; published 1972 by Climatic Data Press; p. 100.

Nonfiction

Michael H. Glantz; Currents of Change : El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society; published 1996 by Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57659-8
Michael H. Glantz (editor); Drought Follows The Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas; published 1994 by Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44252-4
Fagan, Brian; Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations; published 2000 by Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-01121-7
Nicholas G. Arons; Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil; published 2004 by University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-2433-5
Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands

Fiction

Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas ("Barren Lives"), novel

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Agreste

Climate

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References