Bizarre Brazil

Moon in a lonely and cold night at Jaguarao… ye, this little white point is the moon!

Winter apparently arrived one month earlier in Southern Brazil this year. As a rule of thumb you should expect this kind of temperatures only by mid June or early July on the Southerner states and some mountainous regions of Sao Paulo state (and Sao Paulo City itself). Like Australia and South-Africa, winter in Brazil and Argentina occurs between June and September. Yes, we are the antipodes.

As a note, Sao Paulo state plus the three southerners are responsible for half of Brazilian GDP (PPP) of U$1.55 trillion (9th) and for 36% of the country population (67 million people).

Yesterday in a town in Santa Catarina state temperatures plunged to -3C (26F) and school classes were suspended:

Photo: Paulo Afonso Silva
Aulas sao suspensas em Sao Joaquim devido ao frio (.br)

And in my hometown yesterday it plunged to 3.4C (38F):

Photo: Ronaldo Bernardi

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The house is so old that has raised a tree inside…

ceiling

stairs

Jaguarao - antique houses

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Jaguarao - churches

The Jaguarao Bridge is in fact named Maua Bridge. It is over the Jaguarao River and links the
little town of Jaguarao in Brazil to little town Rio Branco, in Uruguay.

Jaguarao is a very beautiful town with its well preserved houses from 1800 and 1900. The pictures (in this post and next ones) were taken in rainy days.

Moon in the middle of the noon at Pelotas town (Rio Grande do Sul)

(detail)

More about Pelotas via Wikipedia (Portuguese only)