Francisco Beltrão

Brief

Francisco Beltrão is in the center of the southwest region of Paraná state, which encompasses about 500,000 inhabitants in a 20,000 square kilometer (about 7,700 square mile) area, nearly 5% of the whole state's population and 10% of the entire state's area. Most of the town's surrounding population resides in small agriculture-based villages and towns with only low-level services, leading to them often having to utilize services in the main regional settlement, thus concentrating a large number of the region's economic activities in Francisco Beltrão.

Paulo Abdala Airport serves the city.

Geography

Francisco Beltrão is located in the third parana's highland. The downtown elevation is around 550 meters while the surrounding area rises as high 950 m, causing the city to take on a bowl shape. Several rivers run through this area, the most important being the "Rio Marrecas", where the first settlement was established about 1950.

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as humid subtropical (Cfa).

The weather is warm most of the year with occasional hot days in the summer when temperatures reach over 32 °C in the hottest days. The average high temperature is 30 °C with lows around 18 °C. Summer winds are calm, causing the heat index to be high.

The average winter low is 8 °C, with temperatures falling below the freezing point for up to ten days per year. With highs around 20 °C, the winds are a bit stronger than in the summer. During nights of calm wind, the bowl-like shape of the city causes the cold air to descend in the city's center, causing the temperatures to decline much more than in the surrounding areas. However, as soon as the sun rises, this effect quickly vanishes.

The lowest recorded temperature was in July 2000 at -5 °C. The highest was in November 1985 at 38 °C. Snow is rare, appearing once or twice every ten years (the four most recent snows were in July 2007, July 1975, July 1965, and July 1955). Freezes are more common and occur throughout the winter, for up to 20 days a year.

The average rainfall is high, at around 2000 mm per year.

|Jan record high C = 36.4 |Feb record high C = 37.6 |Mar record high C = 37.4 |Apr record high C = 33.8 |May record high C = 31.9 |Jun record high C = 31.0 |Jul record high C = 30.0 |Aug record high C = 34.0 |Sep record high C = 35.7 |Oct record high C = 36.4 |Nov record high C = 38.3 |Dec record high C = 38.2 |Jan record low C = 8.0 |Feb record low C = 8.7 |Mar record low C = 3.4 |Apr record low C = 1.0 |May record low C = -0.2 |Jun record low C = -4.2 |Jul record low C = -5.0 |Aug record low C = -2.4 |Sep record low C = -0.4 |Oct record low C = 3.3 |Nov record low C = 4.8 |Dec record low C = 8.6 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032221/http://www.iapar.br/arquivos/Image/monitoramento/Medias_Historicas/Francisco_Beltrao.htm | archive-date = 24 September 2015 | access-date = 24 May 2024}}

Economy

Since 2000, the GDP has growth over 7.5% annually. Unemployment has dropped from 11% of its 35,000 economically active people to somewhat over 6% as of 2006.

For the last three years, the city was proportionally ranked first (and generally no lower than fifth) in job-creation throughout the state of Paraná.

Culture

Most inhabitants are descendants of Italian and German immigrants, who first lived in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina before coming to the region between the 1940s and the 1960s. According to some researchers, 50% of population descends from Italian immigrants while 15% are descendants of German immigrants. These proportions are likely to decrease as young people move around Brazil and northern Brazilian residents move to this city.

References

References

1. [https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/pr/francisco-beltrao/panorama IBGE 2020]
2. "Climate: Francisco Beltrão - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table". Climate-Data.org.
3. "SMA - Sistema de Monitoramento Agroclimático do Paraná".
4. ''Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - [[Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. IBGE]]. [http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/economia/pibmunicipios/2004/default.shtm]''
5. ''Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego - CAGED. [http://perfildomunicipio.caged.com.br/result_perfil.asp?cst=geoagr&uf=PR&mun=41.0840&ano=2007&anomax=2007&mun_sel=%20Francisco%20Beltr%E3o&microreg=%20Francisco%20Beltrao&titulo_setor=Todos%20os%20Setores&titulo_subsetor=Todos&codmicro=41026&tit_col1=Munic%EDpio&tit_col2=UF&v_adm_c1=45104&v_adm_c2=5700935&v_desl_c1=38675&v_desl_c2=5193737&perc_adm=0,79&perc_desl=0,74&v_va_c1=6429&v_va_c2=507198&v_vr_c1=77,06&v_vr_c2=37,96&v_pr=1,27&v_estoque_total_jan_c1=15925&v_estoque_total_jan_c2=1859540&v_estoque_decl_jan_c1=10964&v_estoque_decl_jan_c2=1150235&vlpercent_estoque_total_jan=0,86&vlpercent_estoque_decl_jan=0,95&v_totestab_jan_c1=4441&v_totestab_jan_c2=523148&vlpercent_totestb_jan=0,85&meses_tit=Jan%20de%202000%20a%20Fev%20de%202007&quadro=1&data_INI=14/04/2007%2016:34:45&idade=&competenciaIni=01_2000&competenciaFim=200702&setor=TODOS&subsetor=TODOS&ordenacao=&regiao=&qtde=20&tit_mesF=Fev&tit_mesI=Jan]''
6. [http://canais.ondarpc.com.br/gazetadopovo/economia/conteudo.phtml?id=640219 ''Gazeta do Povo online'']