São João da Paraúna 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 western
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,
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 ...
.
Location
São João is located west of
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 ...
, 36 km. north of
Paraúna.
*Highway connections from
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 ...
: state highway BR-069 west from
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 ...
, through
Trindade,
Santa Bárbara de Goiás
Santa Bárbara de Goiás is a municipality in eastern Goiás state, Brazil.
Location
Santa Bárbara is located due west of Goiânia. Nearby towns are Trindade (40 km. to the east), and Nazário (17 km. to the west). The regional cente ...
,
Firminópolis
Firminópolis is a municipality in eastern Goiás state, Brazil.
Location and connections
*Distance to São Luís de Montes Belos: 9 km.
Highway connections with Goiânia are made by state highway BR-069 west from Goiânia, through Trindad ...
, and then GO-164 for 32 kilometers south.
Neighboring municipalities:
Aurilândia,
Paraúna,
Palminópolis,
Jandaia
Jandaia is a municipality in the eastern portion of the Brazilian state of Goiás.
Location and connections
Jandaia has municipal boundaries with:
*Northwest: Palmeiras de Goiás
*Northeast: Palminópolis
*North, South, and Southwest: Indiara
*E ...
,
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 ...
.(Firminopolis),(São Luis dos Montes Belos)
Political information
*Mayor: Claudivino Ferreira da Silva (January 2005)
*City council: 09 members
*Eligible voters: 1,687 (December/2007)
Demographic information
*Population density: 5.56 inhabitants/km
2 (2007)
*Urban population: 1,212 (2007)
*Rural population: 487 (2007)
*Population growth: a gain of about 300 people since 1980
Economic information
The economy is based on
subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...
, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
*Industrial units: 1 (2007)
*Commercial units: 17 (2007)
*Dairy: Laticínios MB Ltda (22/05/2006)
*Motor vehicles: 200 (2007), which gave a ratio of 8.5 inhabitants for each motor vehicle. (''motorcycles and motorbikes not counted'')
*Cattle herd: 30,500 head (5,190 milk cows) (2006)
*Main crops (2006): cotton, rice, beans, manioc, corn (1,340 hectares), and soybeans (2,900 hectares).
Data are fro
Sepin
Education (2006)
*Schools: 2
*Students: 453
*Higher education: none
*Adult literacy rate: 87.1% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
Health (2003)
*Hospitals: 0
*Hospital beds: 0
*Ambulatory clinics: 2
*Infant mortality rate: 13.70 (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 ...
*Life expectancy: 73.5
*School attendance rate: 0.837
*MHDI: 0.779
*State ranking: 34 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
*National ranking: 1,093 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)
''Data are from 2000''
For the complete list se
Frigoletto.com
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
Frigoletto
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Municipalities in Goiás