Quixeramobim

Quixeramobim officially Santo Antonio do Boqueirao de Quixeramobim; formerly Nova Vila do Campo Maior is a municipality in central State of Ceara, northeastern Brazil. It has a population of approximately 72,000 2010 census. The neighborhood biome is caatinga hiperxerofila. Deserts and xeric shrublands are a habitat type defined by means of the World Wide Fund for Nature.Deserts and xeric shrublands shape the largest terrestrial biome, overlaying 19 according to cent of Earth's land floor place. Ecoregions on this habitat kind vary substantially in the amount of annual rainfall they acquire, usually much less than 250 millimetres yearly.

Generally evaporation exceeds rainfall in those ecoregions. Semi-arid tropical heat with rainfall focused from February to April. The common temperature is 26-28C and the common annual rainfall is 708 mm. The Paus Brancos district of the municipality changed into certain a concern place for conservation and sustainable use while the Caatinga Ecological Corridor was created in 2006. It turned into based within the 17th Century on lands adjacent to Rio Ibu and became a municipality in 1755. The primary economic occupations are farming and ranching.