Parangatu is a town in
Goiás
Goiás () is a Brazilian state located in the Center-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goi ...
state,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Geography
Parangatu is in its own microregion,
Porangatu Microregion
The Porangatu Microregion is a statistical region created by IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Economia) in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The most important city is Porangatu.
Municipalities
The microregion consists of the follo ...
, of 226,766 inhabitants in an area of 35.287 km
2; 426 km from the state capital,
Goiânia
Goiânia (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region and the 10th-largest in the country. Its metropolitan area has a population ...
. This microregion serves as a nucleus for eighteen municipalities in the north of Goiás state. The municipal seat is just west of the important interstate highway BR-153, which connects
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...
with
Brasília
Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitsche ...
and just south of the state line with the state of
Tocantins
Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás. Tocantins covers and had an estimated population of 1,496,880 in 20 ...
.
Important rivers are the Santa Tereza, Cana Brava, Ouro Pintado, Santa Maria and Gregório. The climate is hot, moist tropical, with frequent occurrences of a maximum of 40 °C. The average minimum is 21C, the maximum is 40 °C and the minimum is 21 °C. The elevation is 390 meters above sea level and the highest points are Serra da Sabina and Serra dos Picos.
History
The first settlement began in the eighteenth century with the discovery of gold in the region. Attacks from the local Indians, the Canoeiros, kept the settlement, called Descoberto, from developing. Until 1933 it was a district belonging to
Pilar de Goiás, when it became part of the municipality of Santana, later changed to
Uruaçu
Uruaçu is a city and municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil.
Geography
Uruaçu is located north of Anápolis and Goiânia on the important interstate highway BR-153, which links Brasília to Belém. It is 269 km. from Goiânia and 244&n ...
. In 1943 Descoberto was changed to Porangatu, from Tupi-Guarani, meaning "poran", beautiful, and "gatu", landscape. In 1948 it was dismembered from Uruaçu. With the building of the
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...
to
Brasília
Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitsche ...
highway (BR-153) in 1958 Porangatu grew quickly to become the most important commercial center of this new region that was opening up to migrants from the south.
Political information
*Mayor: José Osvaldo da Silva (January 2005)
*Eligible voters: 28,739 (December 2007)
*City council: 9 members
Demographic information
*Population density: 8.14 inhabitants/km
2 (2007)
*Urban population: 33,077(2007)
*Rural population: 6,161 (2007)
*Population growth or loss: a gain of about 5,500 people since 1980 -0,45% decrease 1996/2007
Economic information
The economy is based on agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
Most of the economy is dependent on cattle raising and agriculture, but in recent years the region has attracted medium size industries. Porangatu is today the commercial center for the north of Goiás receiving people from all the neighboring region to buy its products. Commerce employed 2,065 people in 2005.
*Industrial units: 75 (2007)
*Commercial units: 432 (2007)
*Bank agencies: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A. - CEF.
(August 2007)
*Dairy: - LACEL - Laticínios Ceres Ltda. - Agroindústria Camapum Ltda (22/05/2006)
*Meat packing plant: FRIRAL - Frigorífico Fronteiras Ltda.; - HBC Comércio e Representações Ltda. (22/05/2006)
*Motor vehicles: 4,810 automobiles (2007)
Agricultural Data (2006)
*Farms: 1,532
*Total agricultural Area: 395,310 hectares
*Permanent Planted Area: 331 hectares
*Temporary Planted Area: 5,823 hectares
*Natural Pasture: 267,860 hectares
*Woodland and Forest: 113,655 hectares
*Workers related to the farm owner: 2,717
*Workers not related to the farm owner: 1,022 (IBGE)
*Cattle herd: 332,000 head (2006)
*Main crops: rice (1,500 hectares) corn (1,400 hectares), and soybeans (2,000 hectares).
Education (2006)
*Schools: 48 with 12,244 students
*Middle school enrollment: 2,277 students
*Higher education: Porangatu has a campus of the Universidade Estadual de Goiás with courses in the following areas: Biology, Mathematics, Geography, Humanities and Computer Scienc
UEG
*Adult literacy rate: 80.5% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
Health (2007)
*Hospitals: 6
*Hospital beds: 200
*Ambulatory clinics: 18
*Infant mortality rate: 32.75 (2000) (national average was 33.0).
Municipal Human Development Index 2000
*Municipal
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, wh ...
MHDI: 0.761
*State ranking: 52 (out of 242 municipalities)
*National ranking: 1,562 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
Seplan Economic Development Index
The ranking was 110 out of 246 municipalities. Se
Seplan
Seplan Social Development Index
The ranking was 120 out of 246 municipalities. Se
See also
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List of municipalities in Goiás
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Goiás (GO), in the Central-West Region of Brazil. Goiás is divided into 246 municipalities, which are grouped into 18 microregions, which are grouped into 5 mesoregions.
Ordered by regio ...
References
Frigoletto
{{Municipalities of Goiás
Municipalities in Goiás