Araçu is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in central

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state,

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Geography

Araçu is part of the

Anápolis Microregion 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 398,869 inhabitants according to the ...

and is a short distance northwest of the state capital,

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. It has boundaries with Itaberaí, Itauçu, and

Caturaí Caturaí is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. Caturaí is 32 kilometers north of Goiânia and belongs to the Anápolis Microregion. It is connected to the state capital by highway GO-070. Neighboring munic ...

. The distance to the state capital,

, is and highway connections are made by GO-070 / Goianira / GO-523 /

/ GO-222.

Demographics

The population density was 25.26 inhabitants/km² (2007) with 3,343 people living in the urban areas and 537 living in the rural areas. The population growth rate was 0.49% for the period 1996/2007)

Economy

The economy is based on cattle raising (19,500 head in 2006), services, public administration, and agriculture. The main agricultural products in 2006 were bananas, coffee, garlic, rice, sugarcane, beans, corn, and tomatoes. There were no financial institutions reported in 2007. *Industrial establishments: 6 *Retail commerce establishments: 26 *Automobiles: 314 Agricultural data 2006 *Farms: 171 *Total area: *Area of permanent crops: *Area of perennial crops: *Area of natural pasture: *Area of woodland and forests: *Persons dependent on farming: 620 *Farms with tractors: 33 *Number of tractors: 47 *Cattle herd: 19,500 hea
IBGE

Health and education

There was one small hospital with 16 beds in 2006. The infant mortality rate was 17.97 in 2000. In the educational sector there were 1,093 students attending primary and middle schools. The literacy rate was 81.5% in 2000. (IBGE 2004). The classification on the

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, Education Index, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income i ...

was 0.733. This ranked 130 (out of 242 municipalities) in the state and 2,337 out of 5,507 municipalities in the country.

History

Araçu began on the ranch owned by José Jacinto da Silva, where there was a cemetery built in 1911. In 1912 Silva donated part of his land for the building of a chapel. From 1925 to 1930 with the arrival of the families of Antônio Camargo and João Faria, the settlement known as São Sebastião do Salobro, began to grow. In 1935 it belonged to the municipality of Itauçu and in 1941 it became a district with the name Araçu, a Tupi term that means "Terra Grande" (Large Land). In 1958 it was dismembered from Itauçu and became a municipality. Source
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