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Human Aspects

Demographic Density: 16.52 hab/km squared.

1991 CENSUS

Meteorological Station

The astroroof of Quixeramobim is one of most equipped of the Ceará. Its equipment is modern. Valuable instruments give with accuracy inform harvested on atmospheric phenomena. Exactly being endowed with wind cock, they were launchn per the morning and to the night, luminous balloons with intention to know the route of the winds. The passage of the balloons was always folloied with expectations for the population of the city in order to make prognostic for squares winterly. Of the technological point of view, the devices, however existing, more are sophisticated of the one than primitively installed, and its upper-class technician trained. The excellent Meteorological Station has given job to the generations through information directed for $fortaleza, Recife and Brasilia that, added to others of equal value, allow to establish, with certain accuracy, data on the northeast rainy station.
For this, it counts on the following equipment: Barometer, Microbarógraphic, Anemograph, Psicômeter-ventilated, Evaporímeter de Piche, Heliograph, Piranógraphic, Pluviógraphic, Anemometer-totalizer, Tank of Evaporation, Geotermômeter, Termo-hidrógraphic, Test tubes and other indispensable ones to the job.

Seismic droughts, Floodings, and Abalos

With relation to the droughts suffered for Quixeramobim, it is difficult to relate them due to data. Generally the droughts had in the northeast reach, directly or indirectly, the Central Hinterland of the Ceará.
Concerning droughts that had occurred in Quixeramobim, vacant registers from 1791 and in indirect way exist. Quixeramobim suffered very with the severity from dries of 1791. It also suffered cos the droughts from 1824 and 1825. In 1825, the date most tragic of the pertaining to the state of Ceará chronology, the coast would win the hinterland, and the hunger, the plague, and the civil war would print a significant point of inflection to the history of the Ceará. Another one dries that the central hinterland victimize was of 1844 and 1845, famous for the actual damages to the provinceal population after a good space of abundance and tranquility, appears dries of 1877 the 1879, the call great drought.
Any person, for more less informed, perceives that all the governing if have reported with the same emphasis, but all face the problem with indifference the same. In the next drought, that undoubtedly will come, same litany goes to happen again itself. Invasion and sackerments will happen in the cities, commissions of rescue will be municipal servants, authorities will beat, beging to the gates of the governing and of the public agencies that will only confide in easiness for the coreligionists of the governors, remittances of sorts are directed to pressas to the cities, mounts of money are wasted in useless or little lasting workmanships. What it lacks they are flat bold, to tread upon in the reality and you deliver the honest people who do not benefit themselves with the " Industry of Drought ".

Quixeramobim, as all the Northeast region, is passive periodically of long estiagens, droughts and rare of floods. In Quixeramobim it has if notice of only 4, if well that winters heavy had many. The 1874 winter began in January, with great intensity for the hinterland. In the ribeira of the Quixeramobim and Pedra Branca it fell, the 30 of January, a so strong rain, that in the following day the rivers were in fertile valleys and kill enormous amount of cattle. In 1936 it had another flood with the river Quixeramobim overflowing, also arriving to wash the sleeper metallic of the bridge. The population counts that the waters had arrived at the neighborhoods of the level of the First church.
Another overflow of the river Quixeramobim that scared the marginal population occurred in 1 of May of 1974. Elapsed a very strong winter, and in day 30 of April rained torrentially in the basin of the Quixeramobim, mainly in its headboards. It had a true deluge in the dam of the Teotônio, one of the greaters in the passage of the river, what it took that reservoir to the burglary. When receiving the waters from the Teotônio and its tributaries the river Quixeramobim overflew. The waters had started to arrive at the city for half-day rollback, due to communication not if wise person what it was happening in Madalena. The volume of water grew each faster time. The fidget was general therefore who deferred payment to the margin of the river did not have commercial relatives or houses, in the place. For rollback of the 17 hours the level of the water only stopped to go up. Article of the periodical of the parish sees the stretch down(um " the Sign "):

 
	" Per the afternoon of the day 1 of May the waters had
arrived the Quixeramobim.  Its tremendous fury had left a track of
destruction of more than one hundred kilometers, starting for the farm
Bellies and passing for the districts of Madalena and Passagem.
Horrible was the confusion here, in the headquarters of the city.
The barrage arrived to bleed with a blade of 6 meters and the waters
had passed over the bridge, in a height of two meters with tremendous
boom, in an impressive and dreadful spectacle that caused fear to many
brave people ".

One another phenomenon that could not leave of being cited, was one shakes seismic occurrence for 1980 rollback. The population of some regions of the state is waked, approximately to one hour of the dawn, with a land trembling that terrified to all, therefore was the first time that such phenomenon in the Ceará was verified. In the following day the press notified that the epicenter of the trembling had been in Quixeramobim and that the intensity of I shake it arrives the 2 points in Scale Ritcher. In the city it does not have register of other shake as this, nor for oldest.

Dams

In quixeramobim it exists many dams as in all interior of the Ceará, since we do not have rain guarantee every year we have that to have reservoirs to store water, that in dries will be of extreme value. It enters biggest dams of Quixeramobim if they detach:

Fogareiro Dam

In 12 of June of 1992 the construction of the dam Fogareiro, whose budget had beginning it added 12.4 billion new cruises, the equivalent today the 40 Real million. The irrigation of the aluvionárias areas has as purpose that occur the ebb tide of the slide bars, supplying water of the city of Quixeramobim and pisciculture. The reservoir will go to provide the irrigation of 6900 hectares of lands unproductive and to annually try the supplying of 180 tons of fish. The workmanship was concluded in March of 1996.

Dam of the Commission

Constructed in 1978, for the aid mount of money public, of the Federal Government, what he is situated in the extremity east of Quixeramobim, its wall is of land and bleeding of rock and whitewash, firmed in rock, giving it exempts pass to waters.

Medias

Post offices and Telegraphs - the inauguration of the postal job was in 4 d and March of 1846, and the telegraphic one, in 28 of February of 1926, this time did not exist the system of distribution of domiciliary correspondence and the people caught its letters in the proper agency.
Periodicals - Quixeramobim already had some periodicals as: Quixeramobim(I), the Palmatória, the Writing, the Shears, the order, Quixeramobim(II), Quixeramobim(III), the sign and Tribune of the Hinterland. Quixeramobim(I) it circulated in 1906 and it had weekly drawing, the Palmatória appeared in 1906, and was plus one pasquim of that a periodical properly said, the Writing had its first number circulating in 1909, the Shears was a periodical manuscript that had as philosophy the denunciation and the critical one appeared in 1927 and circulated up to 1930, the Order appeared in 1928, and was " a periodical that it gave order, received order and it did not want clutter ", In 1956 appears Quixeramobim(II) the agency of the Bosom Lítero-Recreativo Dom Quintino, In 1969 appears the Sign, it is about a religious periodical and its purpose is to divulge what it says respect to the parish and the evangelition Quixeramobim(III) it was created in 7 of September of 1979 taking care of the aspirations of the young of the time, and finally, the Tribune of the Hinterland that had for purpose to defend the central hinterland and to demand improvement for the region.
Broadcasting - In 1969 this sender appears the first radio called Rádio Difusora Cristal s.a. is affiliated to the Pertaining to the state of Ceará ACERT(Association of Senders of radio and Television), has a penetration between 100 and 200km and is located in the Street Monsignor Salviano Pinto, 71. In 6 of March of 1988 the Radio was inaugurated Bigger Field of Quixeramobim, with frequency of 840 KHz, average wave, its headquarters is located in the Street Monsignor Salviano young chicken, 507. They still exist three FMs communitarian working in following frequency: 87.9, 97.1 and 104,5.
Telephony - in 26 of September of 1980 it only is that the urban telephony coupled to DDD and DDI was inaugurated to telephone exchange, before what existed was a only local system of comprise, today already exists the system of cellular telephony.