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Sobral

State Of Ceara, Brazil
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About Sobral

Sobral is a municipality within the country of Ceara, Brazil. Sobral is the 5th largest municipality of Ceara, after Fortaleza. Its economic system is based totally on agriculture, services and some production industries. The town has public universities: Universidade Federal do Ceara and Universidade Estadual do Vale do Acarau. It also has non-public universities, along with Faculdade Luciano Feijao, Unopar, and UNINTA a theological institute. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sobral.

The metropolis is understood for being the place wherein the astronomical remark of a sun eclipse on May 29, 1919, by using a group of British scientists led by way of Sir Frank Watson Dyson turned into supplied as the first proof of Albert Einstein's principle of general relativity, which have been published in 1916. The city's Museu do Eclipse "Museum of the Eclipse" celebrates this event. There is a monument in Patrocínio Square marking the area of this solar eclipse. A planetarium became also inaugurated in 2015 subsequent to this monument.

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