The Location
The set of buildings of the Graduate Program of Chemistry is located at Campus of Pici, in Fortaleza, 9.1 km from downtown, 12.1 km from “Beira Mar” Avenue, and 21.3 km from “Praia do Futuro” beach. Fortaleza is the capital of Ceara state in the Northeast of Brazil, being the 4th largest city in the country with a population of over 2.7 million (if consider the metropolitan area, it goes to over 4.1 million people). It is one of the most visited city in Brazil mainly because of the beaches with fine white sand and turquoise water of temperature around 28o Celsius (80 F). Fortaleza has a typical tropical climate with average temperature of 27 oC (80.6 oF) and relative humidity of 77 %.
