São João D'Aliança
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São João d'Aliança 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 northeastern
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,
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. São João is a gateway to the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. The name is sometimes written as São João D'Aliança.


Location

São João is located north of
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on state highway G0-118, which begins near Planaltina and connects with Alto Paraíso de Goiás. It is part of the Chapada dos Veadeiros Microregion. The distance to 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 ...
is 357 km. Highway connections from
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are made by BR-153 /
Anápolis Anápolis (, ) is a Brazilian city in the State of Goiás. It is located between two capitals, the federal capital Brasília and state capital Goiânia. It is the third most populous city in the state, with 391,772 inhabitants according to an es ...
/ BR-060 /
Alexânia Alexânia is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. Alexânia is known for its alleged extraterrestrial sightings in the late sixties and early seventies. The Areias River passes through the municipality. Location It is located on th ...
/ Planaltina (DF) / GO-430 /
Planaltina de Goiás Planaltina may refer to: Geography * Planaltina, Federal District, an administrative region in the Federal District, Brazil * Planaltina, Goiás, a municipality in the state of Goiás (in the metropolitan region of Brasilia), Brazil * Planaltin ...
(GO) / GO-118 / BR-010 /. Neighboring municipalities are: *North: Alto Paraíso de Goiás *South: Formosa and Água Fria de Goiás *East: Flores de Goiás *West:
Niquelândia Niquelândia is municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil. It is the largest municipality in the state in area and is an important producer of minerals. Geography Niquelândia is 370 km from the state capital, Goiânia, and has an elevati ...


The economy

The economy is based on agriculture (corn, soybeans, and manioc), cattle raising (64,800 head in 2006), services, public administration, and small transformation industries. The soils, altitude and climate are considered favorable for planting corn (7,000 hectares) and soybeans (19,000 hectares). Farmers harvest 15,000 sacks of corn per square kilometre, which is twice the national average. Usually corn is rotated with soybeans. There was one financial institution—Banco Itaú—in 2007. In 2006 there were 893 farms with a total area of 133,134 ha., of which 2,590 ha. were permanent crops, 27,673 ha. were perennial crops, and 71,332 ha. were natural pasture. There were 2,550 persons dependent on agriculture. The number of tractors was 259.


Health and education

*Hospitals: 01 with 24 beds (2007) *Adult literacy rate: 84.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%) *Infant mortality rate: 26.56 (2000) (national average was 33. *MHDI: 0.719 *State ranking: 177 (out of 242 municipalities) *National ranking: 2,654 (out of 5,507 municipalities)


Tourism

Tourism has become important in recent years with the proximity of the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. There are several waterfalls in the region, with the Cachoeira Extrema or Label being the highest: 130 meters of direct fall. It is still quite inaccessible and it is necessary to walk three hours to reach it. The vegetation and fauna are very rich in the area. In the
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 the ...
there are a minimum of 837 species of birds and 161 species of mammals.


History

São João began as a farm in the nineteenth century. In 1910, it was Arraial Capetinga, consisting of same grass huts, two houses covered with tiles, and a chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. In 1931 it became a municipality only to revert to a district of Formosa in 1939. Finally in 1953 it was re-established as a municipality. With the construction of
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and a relative proximity to that important city, farmers from the south began to arrive and buy inexpensive land to plant soybeans.


See also

*
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


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