Turvelândia 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 eastern

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

Turvelândia is located 65 km. east of Rio Verde *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 ...

are made by state highway BR-060 west from

, through /

Abadia de Goiás Abadia de Goiás is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil, located on the western edge of the Goiânia metropolitan area. Geographical Data The distance to Goiânia is 27 km. and highway connections are made by BR-060. Neighboring m ...

Guapó Guapó () is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 14,207 (2020) and the total area of the municipality was 517.0 km² (10/10/2002). Guapó is part of the Goiânia Microregion. Neighboring municipalities are: * ...

Indiara Indiara is a city and municipality in central-south Goiás state, Brazil. Indiara is a large producer of soybeans and cotton. Location Indiara is in the Vale do Rio dos Bois and has municipal boundaries with: *north: Palmeiras de Goiás *south: ...

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 ...

/ GO-164 /

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 ...

/ BR-452 / GO-409 / Maurilândia. Neighboring municipalities:

Edéia Edéia is a municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. Municipal Boundaries Edéia is in the Vale do Rio dos Boisstatistical micro-region and has municipal boundaries with: *north: Indiara *west: Acreúna and Turvelândia *east: Ede ...

, Maurilândia

Political Information

*Mayor: Eduardo Mendonça (January 2005) *City council: 09 members *Eligible voters: 3,348 (December/2007)

Demographic Information

*Population density: 4.1 inhabitants/km² (2007) *Urban population: 2,865 (2007) *Rural population: 987 (2007) *Population growth: a loss of about 1,800 people since 1991

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. Public administration provided jobs for 238 workers in 2003. *Industrial units: 3 (2007) *Commercial units: 32 (2007) *Destillary: Vale do Verdão S/A (2007) *Motor vehicles: 233 (2007), which gave a ratio of 16 inhabitants for each motor vehicle *Cattle herd: 45,000 head (3,600 milk cows) (2006) *Main crops: cotton, rice, sugarcane (11,200 hectares), manioc, corn (3,000 hectares), sorghum, and soybeans (14,000 hectares).

Education (2006)

*Schools: 4 with 1,075 students *Higher education: none *Adult literacy rate: 79.6% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health (2007)

*Hospitals: 1 *Hospital beds: 13 *Ambulatory clinics: 3 *Infant mortality rate: 38.71 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

Municipal Human Development Index

*MHDI: 0.685 *State ranking: 220 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000) *National ranking: 3,223 (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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