Maria da Fé is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of
Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 14,056 people. The area of the municipality is 203.774 km
2. The city belongs to the mesoregion South/South-West of Minas Gerais and to the microregion of
Itajubá.
Climate
The city is located in the dominant mesothermic climates in the
southeast and
south of Brazil, associated with its altitude. The climate is tropical in terms of precipitation but the temperature is affected by elevation, which leads to classify Maria da Fé as a
highland tropical climate, as well as
Campos do Jordão (
Köppen: ''Cwb''). The average temperature is 17 °C (maximum average 23.3 °C and minimum average of 10.1 °C), with warm summers but not as hot as places in valleys in the interior of the country and the winters are colds to
Brazil and
Minas Gerais. The total precipitation is 1738 mm. Different from
oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate, is the humid temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool summers and mild winters ( ...
s, being in the end of the tropics, there is a dry season defined in the winter, they are fences of 7 to 8 cold fronts, without the fronts due to the air dryness, there would be only 40% of the total precipitation for the season. It is the only city in the state where the average temperature rise trend per decade reaches 1 °C. Being in the
Mantiqueira Mountains,
frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) ...
is a common event in normal winter. It can go from 10 occasions in several years.
The city is the coldest of
Minas Gerais and one of the coolest of the
Brazilian southeast. According to data from the
National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), referring to the period between 1976 and 2016, the lowest temperature recorded in Maria da Fé was -8.4 °C on July 21, 1981, and the highest reached 34,4 °C on January 19, 2015. The largest accumulated rainfall in 24 hours reached 173 mm (mm) on January 3, 2000. Other large accumulations equal or greater than 100 mm were 125 mm on October 14, 1995, 103.4 mm on November 26, 2006, and 100.2 mm on February 25, 1995. The lowest relative humidity index reached 15% in the afternoon of August 20, 2005. In recent records there were years like 2013 where there were 23 nights with
frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) ...
but the following year only 3 days, but varies considerably from year to year going from a few days to more than a dozen. The average of the first frost is on May 18 and the last on August 14, and may occur from early April until the end of September.
Notes
See also
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List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
References
Gallery
Image:Maria.da.fe01.jpg, Maria da Fé olive oil project
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Municipalities in Minas Gerais