Huidige Tijd in Crateús, Brazilië — America/Fortaleza.

Crateús is a Brazilian city in the northwest of the state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil with an estimated 75,159 inhabitants, and one of the most important and oldest cities in the county. Popularly known as the Capital of the West, it is a city with significant regional importance, standing out in the traditional function of marketing rural products, resulting from the development of family agriculture, with emphasis on the large production of corn and beans, at the foot of the rich valleys in the region, geographically cut by the Poti River and Serra Grande. It was once one of the largest biofuel producers in the Northeast, with a production capacity of 118,800 m3 of biodiesel per year according to the company. Crateús also hosts a Brazilian Army unit. It is located in a wealthy part of the state, close to the western border. Crateús is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crateús. It was established by Portuguese explorers in the 17th century in uplands originally inhabited by indigenous peoples.

Distance-wise, Crateús is closest to São Paulo (~2,141 km), New York (~6,129 km), London (~7,383 km); Tokyo is the far end at roughly 16,624 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Crateús sits inside Brazilië — the South America subregion, capital Brasília, languages Portuguese, currency BRL (R$).

Around Crateús, the nearest mapped reference cities are Várzea Alegre (37 km), Novo Oriente (41 km), Independência (47 km), Nova Russas (54 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for America/Fortaleza planning.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Crateús: Labour Day, Corpus Christi, Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Brazilië.

Closest curated airport references from Crateús: FOR Fortaleza (284 km), REC Recife (714 km), MCZ Maceió (722 km).

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.