Santo Antônio da Barra is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in southwest

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 Goiânia. ...

state,

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. The population was 4,854 (2020 estimate) in a total area of 451.6 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 650 meters. Santo Antônio is a large producer of poultry.

Location

Santo Antônio is 190 kilometers 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 ...

and is part of the

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. The highway connection from

is BR-060. It has boundaries with the following municipalities: *north:

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*south:

Santa Helena de Goiás Santa Helena de Goiás is a municipality in southwestern Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of corn, sugarcane, soybeans, and poultry. Location Santa Helena is located in the Sudoeste de Goiás Microregion, 31 kilometers east of the imp ...

*east:

Acreúna Acreúna is a city and municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil. Location Acreúna is located in the statistical micro-region of Vale do Rio dos Bois, southwest of the state capital, Goiânia, on BR-060, (Brasília-Acre) which links Goiânia ...

*west: Rio Verde

Geographical information

The climate is moist tropical with high night-time temperatures. The rainy season is from October to March and the dry season is from April to September. Because of the hot and dry climate, the main vegetation is sparse

cerrado The ''Cerrado'' (, ) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The core areas of the Cerrado biome are t ...

. In the valleys there are still forests with sucupira, aroeira, pindaíba and other species of trees. Santo Antônio da Barra is bathed by a vast river network, formed by the Verdão, which separates the municipality from

and

; Verdinho, on the border with Rio Verde; and Ribeirão Lage, which forms the boundary with

. Electric energy is furnished by the Hidrelétrica de Cachoeira Dourada, on the Paranaíba.

History

Occupation of the region began in 1951 when Joaquim Domingos da Silva and his wife Alventina Borges da Silva fixed a cross in devotion to Santo Antônio. In 1963 the settlement was elevated to the status of district of Rio Verde The first municipal school, Escola Municipal Antônio Gouvêia de Morais, was built in 1976 with the secondary school, Irmãos Messias da Costa, being built in 1983. Finally, after a plebiscite, the district was emancipated and became a municipality in 1992.

Political and Demographic Information

*Mayor: José Cândido do Nascimento (January 2013) *City council: 09 *Eligible voters: 3,735 (2007) *Population growth: 0.29% from 2000 to 2007

Economic information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. IN 2006 there were 41 agricultural units with 9,219 hectares, of which 3,090 were planted in crops. About 150 persons were employed in agriculture. The largest employer in the town was public service with 385 persons in 2006. *Industrial units: 3 (2007) *Commercial units: 35 (2007) *Automobiles: 228 (2007) *Cattle herd: 22,000 head (2006) *Main crops: cotton, rice, coconuts, beans, manioc, corn, tomatoes, and soybeans.

Education (2006)and Health (2007)

*Schools: 5 with 1,367 students *Higher education: none *Adult literacy rate: 77.1% (2000) (national average was 86.4%) *Hospitals: 0 *Hospital beds: 0 *Ambulatory clinics: 1 *Infant mortality rate: 9.92 (2000) (national average was 33.0. 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, whi ...

*MHDI: 0.746 *State ranking: 86 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000) *National ranking: 1,984 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000) ''Data are from 2000'' For the complete list se
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References

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