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Goiânia
Goiânia ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian federative units of Brazil, state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West Region and the 10th-largest in the country. Its Greater Goiânia, metropolitan area has a population of 2,890,418, making it the 12th-largest in Brazil. With an area of approximately , it has a continuous geography with few hills and lowlands, with flat lands in most of its territory, especially the Meia Ponte River, in addition to Botafogo and Capim Puba streams. Goiânia has its origins as a planned community, planned city, founded on October 24, 1933, by then Governor Pedro Ludovico to serve as the new state capital and administrative center. Before this, the state capital was the town of Goiás, Goiás, Goiás. It is the second most populous city in the Central-West Region, only surpassed by the country's capital Brasília, located about from Goiânia. The ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goiás
Goiás () is a Brazilian States of Brazil, state located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District (Brazil), 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. With 7.2 million inhabitants, Goiás is the most populous state in the Central-West region and the List of Brazilian states by population, 11th most populous in the country. It has the List of Brazilian federative units by gross regional product, ninth largest economy among Brazilian federative units. In Brazil's geoeconomic division, Goiás belongs to the Centro-Sul (Center-South), being the northernmost state of the southern portion of Brazil. The state has 3.3% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 2.7% of the Brazilian GDP. The history of Goiás dates back to the beginning of the 18th century, with the arrival of pioneers from São Paulo. The Rio Verm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Goiânia
The Goiânia metropolitan area (), popularly known as Greater Goiânia (), is a conurbation of cities around Goiânia, capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás. History The metropolitan area was established on December 30, 1999 by the Complementary State Law number 27, and is the largest of Central-Western Brazil. It was the first metropolitan area of that region, since the Cuiabá metropolitan area was only established almost ten years later, on May 28, 2009. It is formed by the following municipalities: * Abadia de Goiás * Aparecida de Goiânia * Aragoiânia * Bela Vista de Goiás * Goiânia * Goianápolis * Goianira * Guapó * Hidrolândia * Nerópolis * Santo Antônio de Goiás * Senador Canedo * Trindade Demography Encompassing thirteen municipalities, Greater Goiânia has an area of 5,787 km2 (or 2,234 square miles). It is by far the most expressive region of the state of Goiás, containing around 35% of its total population, a third of its voters, about 80% of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Goiânia
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Goiânia, in Goiás state, Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population .... * , 1935–1945, 1951-1955 * Ismerindo Soares de Carvalho, 1945–1946, 1947 * Orivaldo Borges Leão, 1946-1947 * Eurico Viana, 1947-1951 * Messias de Souza Costa, 1955 * João de Paula Teixeira Filho, 1955-1959 * , 1959-1961 * Hélio Seixo de Brito, 1961-1966 * Íris Rezende, 1966–1969, 2005–2010, 2017–2020 * , 1969-1970 * Manuel dos Reis e Silva, 1970-1974 * Rubens Vieira Guerra, 1974-1975 * Francisco de Freitas Castro, 1975-1978 * Hélio Mauro Umbelino Lôbo, 1978-1979 * , 1979, 1986–1987, 1988 * , 1979-1982 * , 1982-1983 * Daniel Borges do Campo, 1983 * , 1983–1985, 1989–1992, 1997-2000 * Joaquim Roriz, 1987-1988 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central-West Region, Brazil
The Central-West or Center-West Region of Brazil ( ) is composed of the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul; along with the Federal District (Brazil), Distrito Federal (Federal District), where Brazil's national capital, Brasília, is situated. The region comprises 18.86% of the national territory, and is the least populated in Brazil. With the move of the country's federal capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília in the 1960s, the construction of roads and railways to the interior of the country made access to the region easier, speeding up population growth and contributing significantly to the region's development. Mato Grosso do Sul was created in 1979, materializing the decision of the government to divide the then called state of Mato Grosso in two states to facilitate to administration and the development of the region. Brasília International Airport, Marechal Rondon International Airport, Campo Grande International Airport and Santa Genoveva Airport conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meia Ponte River
The Meia Ponte River ( Portuguese, ''Rio Meia Ponte'') is one of the most important rivers in the state of Goiás, Brazil. Its source lies 60 km north of the city of Goiânia and it flows through that city in a southern direction joining the Paranaíba River just downriver of Cachoeira Dourada Dam. The Paranaíba River marks the border between the states of Goiás and Minas Gerais. The Meia Ponte's basin furnishes water for 2 million people, fifty percent of the population of the state, and a large part of the economy depends on it. The Meia Ponte receives great amounts of garbage, industrial waste Industrial waste is the waste produced by industrial activity which includes any material that is rendered useless during a manufacturing process such as that of factories, mills, and mining operations. Types of industrial waste include dirt and ..., and untreated sewage greatly reducing the quality of its waters. The city of Goiânia dumps over 90% of its untreated sewage into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Brazil By Population
Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% of the population residing in Urban area, urban and Metropolitan area, metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, are based on political divisions, not on the developed environment. Its most populous city is São Paulo. Nowadays, the country has 5,571 cities, with 5,569 municipalities plus the capital (Brasília) and the Fernando de Noronha, Island of Fernando de Noronha. With two exceptions, the state capitals are all the largest cities in their respective states: Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina is its second-largest city after Joinville, while Vitória, Espírito Santo, Vitória is only the fourth-largest city in Espírito Santo, although it is located in that state's largest Greater Vitória, metropolitan area. Most populo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goiás, Goiás
Goiás (also known as Goiás Velho, Old Goiás) is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of Goiás in Brazil. Its population was 22,381 (2020 est.) and its area is 3,108 km2. It is the former Capital (political), capital of the state and preserves much of its colonial heritage. In 2002, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. World Heritage Site It used to be the old state capital of Goiás up until 1937 when the government seat was transferred to the then-recently built Goiânia. It was founded by the famed Bandeirante explorer Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, nicknamed the ''Anhangüera'', and was called in colonial times Vila Boa de Goyaz ("Good Village of Goyaz" in archaic Portuguese). Given its historical importance, the historical center of Goiás was included on the UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2001. Location Municipal boundaries: *North: Faina, Goiás, Faina *South: Mossâmedes *East: Itaberaí *West: Itapirapuã and Matrinchã *Districts: Calcilândia, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Ludovico
Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, better known as Pedro Ludovico (23 October 1891 – 16 August 1979) was the founder of Goiânia, Brazil, and one of the most important figures in the history of the state of Goiás. Ludovico was born in Goiás. He went to Rio de Janeiro where he finished Medical School and was a friend of the writers, Lima Barreto and Olavo Bilac. He defended his thesis on hysteria, at a time when all of Freud's theories were revolutionary. Returning to Goiás he opened a clinic in Rio Verde, but he found life in the interior monotonous. Trips to Rio alleviated his tedium which he surpassed by discovering two loves of his life: politics and ''Dona Gercina Borges'', whom he married. Supporting the liberal revolution of 1930 he was nominated "interventor" in the state of Goiás. He was to govern the state for five periods, three as "interventor" and two as elected governor. He was a senator three times and his struggle for the redemocratization of the country during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planned Community
A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve organically. The term ''new town'' refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. It was also common in the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh ground or on the ruins of earlier Native American villages. A model city is a type of planned city designed to a high standard and intended as a model for others to imitate. The term was first used in 1854. Planned capitals A planned capital is a city specially planned, designed and built to be a capital. Several of the world's national capitals are planned capitals, including Canberra in Australia, Brasília in Brazil, Belmopan in Belize, New Delhi in India, Abuja in Nigeria, Islamabad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasília
Brasília ( ; ) is the capital city, capital of Brazil and Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. Located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's List of cities in Brazil by population, third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita. Brasília is a Planned community, planned city developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect was Roberto Burle Marx. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector, and the Embassy Sector. Brasília was inscribed as a UN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Metropolitan Areas In Brazil
This is a list of the metropolitan areas in Brazil, containing the legally defined metropolitan areas with more than one million inhabitants in Brazil, according to estimates published by IBGE. Definitions In Brazil, the terms ''metropolitan area'' ( Portuguese: ''região metropolitana'') and ''urban agglomeration'' (''aglomeração urbana'') have specific meanings. They are defined by federal and state legislation as collections of municipalities focused on "integrating the organization, planning and execution of public functions of common interest". An ''integrated development area'' (''região integrada de desenvolvimento'') is one of the two above structures that crosses state (or Federal District) boundaries. Because these regions are formed by consent of municipalities, their composition can change over time due to municipal reorganization. These regions may not coincide exactly with boundaries of statistical Immediate Geographic Areas (formerly microregions) defined by IB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Brazil
Brazil is geopolitics, geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which are formed by the federative units of Brazil. Although officially recognized, the division is merely academic, considering geographic, social and economic factors, among others, and has no political effects other than orientating Federal-level government programs. Under the state level, they are further divided into Intermediate and Immediate Geographic Regions, intermediate regions and even further into microregions of Brazil, immediate regions. The five regions Central-West Region *Area: 1,612,007.2 km2 (18.86%) *Population: 16,289,538 (7.2 people/km2; 6.4%) *GDP: Brazilian real, R$279 billion / United States dollar, US$174,3 billion (2008; 8.3%) (Economy of Brazil, 4th) *Climate: Savanna climate (hot, with little precipitation during winter in the northeast and the east; Tropical in the east and in the west; Equ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
