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2 unusual facts about Sobral, Ceará


Guarany Sporting Club

Guarany Sporting Club, commonly known as Guarany de Sobral or just as Guarany, is a Brazilian football club from Sobral, Ceará state.

Guarany Sporting Club was founded on July 2, 1938, at Luiz Nogueira Adeodato's home, located in Sobral, Ceará state.


2013 Campeonato Cearense

Ceará won the championship for the 42nd time and 3rd since 2011, while São Benedito and Maracanã were relegated.

Aspidoras

Six species are known from northeastern Brazilian coastal river basins: A. rochai from rivers around Fortaleza, A. raimundi from the Parnaíba River, A. carvalhoi from rivers around Guaramiranga, Ceará State, A. maculosus from the Itapicuru River, A. menezesi from the Jaguaribe River, and A. spilotus from the Acaráu River.

Associação Desportiva Limoeiro Futebol Clube

Associação Desportiva Limoeiro Futebol Clube, commonly known as Limoeiro, is a Brazilian football club based in Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará state.

Associação Desportiva Recreativa e Cultural Icasa

Associação Desportiva Recreativa e Cultural Icasa, usually known simply as Icasa, is a Brazilian football club in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará.

Associação Desportiva São Benedito

Associação Desportiva São Benedito, usually called São Benedito, is the main football (soccer) club in São Benedito, Ceará, Brazil.

Associação Trairiense de Futebol

Associação Trairiense de Futebol, commonly known as Trairiense, is a Brazilian football club based in Trairi, Ceará state.

Barbalha Futebol Clube

Barbalha Futebol Clube, commonly known as Barbalha, is a Brazilian football club based in Barbalha, Ceará state.

Boa Viagem

Boa Viagem, Ceará, a town and municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil

Boa Viagem Esporte Clube, an association football club based in Boa Viagem, Ceará

Boa Viagem Esporte Clube

Boa Viagem Esporte Clube, commonly known as Boa Viagem, is a Brazilian football club based in Boa Viagem, Ceará state.

Carlos Sobral

Today, Sobral has stores in New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Heidelberg, Honfleur, Buzios and Paraty – a total of 17 Sobral boutiques throughout the America’s and Europe.

Ceará-Mirim

Teodoro Sampaio gives us ceará or cemo-ará, which is "the parrot leaves" or "the parrot's departure".

Crateús

Crateús a city of 76,000 inhabitants on the banks of the River Poti in the south east of the state of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil.

Crateús Esporte Clube

Crateús Esporte Clube, commonly known as Crateús, is a Brazilian football club based in Crateús, Ceará state.

Crato Esporte Clube

Crato Esporte Clube, commonly known as Crato, is a Brazilian football club based in Crato, Ceará state.

Daniel Peixoto

Daniel Peixoto was born in the district of Aldeota, prime area of Fortaleza, state of Ceará.

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

He also did not hesitate in bestowing titles on their three daughters (the Duchesses of Goiás and Ceará and the Countess of Iguaçu) and insisting on their being educated with the royal princesses.

Escadabiidae

The as yet undescribed species in this family expand the range to the coast of Ceará State and caves in the dry central part of Minas Gerais, where the cave-dwelling species could represent an example of relictual distribution.

Fernando de Mendonça

Fernando de Mendonça (born December 2, 1924 in Guaramiranga, Ceará) is a Brazilian electronic engineer and researcher, founder and first director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.

Hélder Silva Santos

Hélder Silva Santos (born October 21, 1988 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais) or simply Hélder, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Ceará, on loan from Figueirense Futebol Clube.

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Jacqueline Meirelles

First daughter of an attorney born in Ceará state and a manager from Minas Gerais, Jacqueline moved to Brasília at seven months old.

Jociel Ferreira da Silva

His previous club was Busan I'Park in South Korea, Ceará, Icasa, Salgueiro, América de Natal, Santa Cruz, Fluminense and Al Shabab Al Arabi Club .

Juninho Cearense

Born in Fortaleza, Ceará as Regilson Saboya Monteiro Jr., he chose Juninho as his artist name, a diminutive form of Júnior.

Leila Sobral

Leila Sobral (born November 22, 1974 in São Paulo) is a female basketball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal with the women's national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia (1996).

Maracanã Esporte Clube

Maracanã Esporte Clube, commonly known as Maracanã, is a Brazilian football club based in Maracanaú, Ceará state.

Maranguape Futebol Clube

Maranguape Futebol Clube, commonly known as Maranguape, is a Brazilian football club based in Maranguape, Ceará state.

Marcos Pimentel

In red-black Bahia, ended up being much criticized, and upon receiving a proposal from Ceará, was released by the club.

Mário Barreto Corrêa Lima

Mário Barreto Corrêa Lima (Ceará, 7 September 1935), is a Brazilian generalist doctor, professor and one of the founders of UNIMED in Rio de Janeiro.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

Padre Cícero

Padre Cícero (Crato, March 24, 1844 - Juazeiro do Norte, July 20, 1934) was born Cícero Romão Batista in Ceará, Brazil.

Parnaíba-Prefeito Dr. João Silva Filho International Airport

The airport is located on a privileged area with great touristic potential, near the municipalities of Camocim e Jericoacoara, in Ceará, the delta of river Parnaíba, in Piauí, and Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Maranhão.

Predictive power

This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington seemed to confirm Einstein's predictions.

Quixadá Futebol Clube

Quixadá Futebol Clube, commonly known as Quixadá, is a Brazilian football club based in Quixadá, Ceará state.

Ronda do Quarteirão

In June 2009, the state government initiated the project in the cities of Sobral and Juazeiro do Norte.

Ruhuhuaria

Ruhuhuaria was first described and named by Linda Akiko Tsuji, Gabriela Sobral and Johannes Müller in 2013 and the type species is Ruhuhuaria reiszi.

Sobral de Monte Agraço Municipality

Charles Oman writes "On that misty October 14th morning, at Sobral, the Napoleonic tide attained its highest watermark."

Stefan Krauter

From 1998 until 2005 he held the position of a visiting professor for Alternative Energies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-COPPE-EE) and at the State University of Ceará (UECE) in Brazil.

Sudene

In the state of Ceará, a new perspective was adopted: Sudene's incentives helped form a textiles industrial area, around the capital of the state, Fortaleza.

Swedish Antarctic Expedition

Sobral and also the American artist F. W. Stokes joined the expedition and spent the two years with Nordenskjöld at Snow Hill Island, becoming the first Argentine to spend time in Antarctica.

Theolinda Olympio de Araújo

She contested the October 14, 1934 elections to the State Constitutive Assembly of Ceará as a candidate of the Catholic Electoral League.

Tremembé people

In the 17th century, the Tremembé began to settle in the Jesuit mission of Aracati-mirím, at Aldeia do Cajueiro (now Almofala) by the Acaraú River in Ceará.


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