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Brazil has five climatic regions:

equatorial, tropical, semi-arid, highland tropical and subtropical.

The south of Brazil is more temperate. Rainy seasons occur from January to April in the north, April to July in the northeast and November to March in the Rio/São Paulo area.
Read more about the climate:
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Saijiki for Northern Brazil

Northern Brazil is essentially equivalent to Amazonia (also called the Amazon River basin). The equador runs through it, with about one quarter of Amazonia in the northern hemisphere and three quarters in the southern. This influences the pattern of rains and droughts.

Throughout the southern part, with some spill over, the rains come in November and finish in June, with peak rainy season from January to April.

Then the dry season starts and peaks in July to September.

In the northern hemisphere the pattern is roughly the opposite. The main rivers flood and empty in consequence of the rains, especially in their headwaters, so different river's peak flood or low water might be good kigo.

Some plants flower in the dry season and fruit in the rainy season, some flower and fruit in the rainy season, and some in the dry season.

Rosa Clement

About Rosa Clement

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Kigo in alphabetical order


Boi-Bumbá Bull Festival

Cat

Jacaranda tree

Mango Blossoms, Mango Fruit

March Rain


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Haiku Topics in alphabetical order



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If in Brazil, samba dancers reproduce the same steps from north to south during all seasons, these seasons have their differences from region to region. Even in the north, Brazil's Amazonian region, where nearly year-round rain and sun predominate, we may discover a period where flowers seem to be abundant everywhere.

Brazil's south clearly has all four seasons, but in the southwest, some seasons are abbreviated or occasionally lacking. On the other hand, when it's "summer" in Amazonia it's "winter" in São Paulo. Thus, our kigo may vary quite a lot and sometimes some of us have trouble choosing a season word. Goga and Teruko Oda published "Natureza - Berço do Haicai" (Nature - Cradle of Haiku, 1996), a book with a season word (kigo) list, which may be more useful for the southern part of Brazil, but the northern part needs to prepare its own list -- what seasons to include is a good question for a region with only a drier and a wetter season.

While in the south there is a great set of images for haiku, such as the lovely ipê trees which bloom in yellow and purple colors, Amazonia has its harpoons and nets, and wings cross the forest daily.

Haiku in the Country of Samba
... ... ... ... Rosa Clement, Amazonas, BR

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Haiku In Amazonas
(Reedited in 15/01/2006)
Rosa Clement

In 2000, the idea to create an haiku association was taking shape and finally a small group, which includes some of the above poets, launched the Sumaúma Haiku Association.
Thus, on the 5th of July 2000, the poet Anibal Beça gave a talk at the monthly "Quarta Literária" (Literary Wednesday), held at Valer Bookstore.

http://www.sumauma.net/articles/haiku-amazonas.html


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CAQUI : The Journal of Haiku in Brazil

Caqui [ka'kI] is the Portuguese spelling for kaki, the Japanese persimmon, a delicate and delicious fruit, perfectly acclimatized to Brazil, in spite of the deep environmental differences between the two countries.

Like kaki, haiku (whose Portuguese spelling, for historical reasons, is haicai [haI 'kaI] ) was brought to Brazil once upon a time, and since then has been growing in popularity. Today, so many poets write haicai/haiku in Portuguese, in order to testimony the perfect acclimatization of that Japanese small poetic form to Brazil.
http://www.kakinet.com/caqui/english.shtml


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