Graus

Graus is a municipality in the province of Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is situated in the northeastern part of the country and is part of the Ribagorza comarca. The municipality includes the town of Graus and surrounding rural areas. It serves as a local center for agriculture and regional services and is noted for its historic town center and traditional Aragonese architecture.

Graus is also the Portuguese plural form graus, meaning degrees. It is used to express angles and temperatures, as in graus Celsius. It is cognate with the Spanish word grados and the English degrees.

In addition to its geographic use, graus appears in various Portuguese-speaking contexts as a unit of measure and in expressions related to levels or steps. The term demonstrates the common Indo-European roots shared by many languages for describing measures of temperature, angle, and progression.