Agreste
Geographical zone of Brazil
title: "Agreste" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["brazilian-literature", "northeast-region,-brazil", "climate-of-brazil", "droughts"] description: "Geographical zone of Brazil" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreste" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Geographical zone of Brazil ::
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| name | Agreste |
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| image_skyline | Pedra do Cordeiro 3.jpg |
| image_caption | Pedra do Cordeiro in the Agreste |
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| image_map | Brazil Region Nordeste Subregions.svg |
| map_caption | The Subregions of Northeast Brazil |
| 1 • Meio-norte, 2 • Sertão, 3 • Agreste, 4 • Zona da Mata | |
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| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Brazil |
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The agreste (, "countryside") 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 rainfall in the coastal Atlantic forest zone.
Most of the agreste is hilly, its hills becoming higher in the south, except near the narrow valley of the São Francisco River. This land is mostly used for mixed farming, especially fruits, of which melons are especially important. Like the sertão, the agreste is frequently affected by drought, though generally with less severe effects. Only some highland regions mostly in Pernambuco, where cities like Garanhuns and Triunfo are located, are able to reach temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius for part of the year, usually during the South American winter.
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; it ranges from less than 10 millimetres in October and November to about 120 millimetres in May and June. |20|30|27 |20|30|41 |20|28|74 |20|28|94 |18|27|118 |18|26|119 |18|25|84 |18|24|59 |18|27|24 |19|28|13 |20|29|16 |20|30|19 |source= |float=left |22|32|41 |22|33|63 |22|33|98 |21|31|122 |21|30|151 |20|29|202 |19|29|88 |19|29|56 |20|30|22 |21|31|12 |22|32|20 |22|32|45 |source= |float=left|clear=none}}
References
Nonfiction
- Michael H. Glantz; Currents of Change : El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society; published 1996 by Cambridge University Press.
- Michael H. Glantz (editor); Drought Follows The Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas; published 1994 by Cambridge University Press.
- Fagan, Brian; Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations; published 2000 by Basic Books.
- Nicholas G. Arons; Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil; published 2004 by University of Arizona Press.
- Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands
Fiction
- Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas ("Barren Lives"), novel
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.
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