Francisco Beltrão

Infobox City |official_name = Francisco Beltrão


image_caption = Francisco Beltrão. November, 2004


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name = Brazil
subdivision_name1 = Paraná
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Vilmar Cordasso (PP)
area_magnitude = 1 E9
area_total_km2 = 731
population_as_of = 2006
population_note = IBGE
population_total = 71463
population_density_km2 = 97.12
timezone = UTC
utc_offset = -3
latd=26 |latm=05 |latNS=S
longd=53 |longm=03 |longEW=W
elevation_m = 650
website = [http://www.franciscobeltrao.pr.gov.br/ (pt) franciscobeltrao.pr.gov.br]
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Francisco Beltrão is the largest and most important town in the southwest region of Paraná state in Brazil. It was established on December 14 1952. According to the official The population is about 72,000 inhabitants, which 85% live in the city and 15% in the land. Francisco Beltrão is very close to two another towns, Marmeleiro and Renascença. The economy is based on agriculture, corn crops, turkey and chicken meat exportation, textile, aluminium pans, and mobile industries, public services and small commerce. The mayor as of 2006 is Vilmar Cordasso.

Brief

Francisco Beltrão is in the middle of the Southwest region of the Paraná state, which has at about 470,000 inhabitants in a 20,000 square kilometers (about 7700 square miles), nearly 5% of the whole state's population in somewhat 10% of the whole state's area. Most of its surrounding populated places are small agriculture based villages and towns, which don't have enough services, so people from this places oft report to larger town, as FB, concentrating in this town the hole economic activities of the region.

Geographie

Francisco Beltrão is located in the third parana's highland. The town altitude is about 550 meters. The sourrouding area rises up to 950 m. Several rivers run through out its area. The most important is the "Rio Marrecas", which was where the first settlement was established about 60 years ago.

Climate

The weather is warm most of the year, and more hot and wet in the summer. The average high temperatures in the summer reach 30°C (86°F) and the average lows in the winter are around 8°C (48°F). The lowest ever recorded occurred temperature in July 2000, -5°C (23°F). The highest happened in November 1985, 38°C (100°F). Snow is rare, having occurred the last three times in July 20 1975, July 1965 and July 1955.The average rainfall is high, around 2000mm/yr. According to Köppen's climate classification the weather in Francisco Beltrão is Cfa. ["Instituto Agronômico do Paraná - IAPAR. [http://www.iapar.br/Sma/Estacoes_IAPAR/Francisco_Beltrao.htm] "]

Economy

Since 2000 the GDP has growth over 7,5% per year. ["Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE. [http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/economia/pibmunicipios/2004/default.shtm] "] The unemployment has dropped from 11% of its 35 000 economic ative people, to somewhat 6% as of 2006. ["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] "] For the last three years the city was proportionally the first, or at least the fifth, which most created formal work places in the Paraná. ["Gazeta do Povo online" [http://canais.ondarpc.com.br/gazetadopovo/economia/conteudo.phtml?id=640219] ] .

Culture

Most of the inhabitants are descendants from Italian and German immigrants, which first lived in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, and then come to the region where the city is placed now, by the years of 1940 until 1960. According to some researches, 50% of population are descendants of Italian immigrants, and 15% are descendants of German immigrants. In the last years is expect to decrease this proportion due to the evasion of the young people, that goes study in the bigger cities, and also because of the increasing number of immigrants from other parts of northern brasil.

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