Nova Granada (Portuguese for "New Granada") is a municipality in the northern part of the state of

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. The population is 21,689 inhabitants (IBGE/2020), and the area is 533.49 km². The elevation is 542 m. The city belongs to the Microregion of São José do Rio Preto.

History

The expansion of coffee cultivation in the North of the state of São Paulo attracted many settlers who founded farming settlements as the population of the region increased. In 1911, Captain Francisco dos Santos founded a community near the Rio Grande settlement in the territory of São José do Rio Preto. Its original name was Vila Bela. In a short time, the first houses were built around the chapel of Saint Benedict's patron. When the Police District was created, the village was renamed 'Pitangueiras', and its name was changed again to New Granada when it was elevated to a District of Peace in 1917. According to the local chronicle, its name comes from the old Spanish immigrant settlers who came from Granada (Spain).

Demographics

Indicators

*Population: 19,180 (IBGE/2010) *Area: 531.9 km² (166.5 sq mi) *

Population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

: 36.06/km² (/sq mi) *Urbanization: 92.7% (2010) *

Sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species d ...

(Males to Females): 101.5 (2011) *

Birth rate The birth rate for a given period is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; populati ...

: 15.5/1,000 inhab. (2009) * Infant mortality: 20.3/1,000 births (2009) *Homicide rate: 6.8/100 thousand ppl *

HDI 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 ...

: 0.790 (

UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

/2000) All indicators are from SEADE and IBGE

Economy

The

Tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

is the economic basis of Nova Granada. Commerce, services and administration corresponds to 62.3% of the city GDP.

Industry Industry may refer to: Economics * Industry (economics), a generally categorized branch of economic activity * Industry (manufacturing), a specific branch of economic activity, typically in factories with machinery * The wider industrial sector ...

is 16.2% of the GDP. The

Primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any Industry (economics), industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portio ...

is relevant, with 21.4%.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070707050830/http://www.novagranada.sp.gov.br/ Prefecture of Nova Granada *
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