ClimateThe area of the Pantanal is part of the tropical hot and damp climatic zones. Annual average values of the air are 24° degrees Celsius. The annual amount of rain amounts to 1,000 to 1,250 millimetres which is not much if one compares this with the neighbouring states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso Do Sul. In these federal states the same index increases - to 1,500 millimetres per annum what the fact supports that it is a semi-dry region in the Pantanal.The time of the tide is from May until JuneThe new life develops in nature while the water with the Rio Paraguay goes down: In the water, in the country and in the trees it is getting particularly interesting now and the observations of the animal families belong for the most beautiful experiences and photo motives. The temperatures decline.
We speak about the dry season from July until OctoberThis is the most pleasant for Pantanal now. The rivers have declined to her normal Heigh goes back the ways are do and passable again, any mosquitos. All kinds of animal can be watched in the surroundings of the flows. The temperatures go except for 10°C at night. There is rainy season from November until JanuaryThe fish swim with the rising waters upstream to spawn. The gnat plague accepts an annoying Weight now, however, goes back noticeably as soon as the first rains start - within the other months insignificant. One particularly nevertheless embellishes time for experiencing the landscape which turns green and flourishes with the humidity again. Something withdrawn lives the animal kingdom in this time because there is water in the most concealed angles now enough. The temperatures rise to 37° degrees Celsius. Although the annual temperature values can be considered relative constantly, there are temperature drops again and again which sink down on-1 °C or rose to 41° degrees Celsius sometimes. The reason of these thermal contrasts lies with the exchange of the currents of air in the direction of north-south between the "Cordilheira dos Andes", the west, and the "Planalto Brasileiro", the east. This corridor channels the cold winds of the south, this one to the equator to currents, and such a distinctive cooling which one mentions in the Pantanal "Friagem" causes in winter (June/July/August). Sometimes one experiences this phenomenon up to five times in a year and within other years it can fail to appear completely. This cooling reaches even the valley the Amazon. This happened for example in July 1975 when the the head office's south and the Brazilian west experienced the "frost of the century": cold, dry winds blew the temperature dropped to 0° degrees Celsius about the Pantanal with 40 km/dog during a night! The opposite also can, heiss, arrive if the winds from the north blow and damply they come from the Amazon and are channelled by the same channel. As a rule, such sudden climate overturns are accompanied by orgasmic downpours in the Pantanal. Then fell water of the sky, as under normal circumstances during a whole month, here within few hours of so many. 145 mm of rain were registered in Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul) in January 1987 within 24 hours! The mentioned winds from the north still combine occasionally with the ones who cross Andes, storm fronts which generally form over Paraguay during the night and then shift in the direction of the Mato Grosso arise, from the west, which one, coming from the Pacific. Continual thunder and lightning, intense rain and whipping storm are the accompanying appearances. The lagoonThe level presents her highest water-level between May and June. The filled lagoons like gigantic water reservatorien work at this time. Some of them feed the rivers now which begin to retreat into her normal bed. Between the single one one can although, fauna and flora of everybody are different single essential from each other hardly recognize lagoons remarkable differences with the eye. This is connected of the different depth of water of every lagoon, the respective floor quality and the mineral content of the water. Lagoons are preferential whereabouts of the big birds and the caymans on the search for food. Furthermore some lagoons still have a low salt content these "salt lagoons" lure certain animals of closed salts of the floor which laps up the mature mineral on her shores. Aquatic little living beings who serve species of waterfowl then determined for her part for the food grow up in these surroundings. |
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