Mimoso de Goiás 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 northeastern

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 Ge ...

state,

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. Mimoso is located in statistical microregion 012, called Entorno do Distrito Federal. It is almost directly north of

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and is on an unpaved highway linking

Padre Bernardo Padre Bernardo is a municipality located in the state of Goiás, Brazil. Location Padre Bernardo is located 42 km north of the boundary with the Federal District. It has boundaries with the following municipalities: *North: Mimoso de Goiá ...

to Água Fria de Goiás. Municipal boundaries are with: *north:

Niquelândia Niquelândia is municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil. It is the largest municipality in the state in area and is an important producer of minerals. Geography Niquelândia is 370 km from the state capital, Goiânia, and has an elevati ...

*west:

Vila Propício Vila Propício is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of sugarcane. Location Vila Propício is located in the Entorno do Distrito Federal micro-region and has boundaries with the following municipalities: *nor ...

and Planaltina de Goiás *east: Água Fria de Goiás *south:

The economy is based on cattle raising, services consisting of shops selling the basic necessities, government employment, and subsistence farming. There are some larger plantations of soybeans, corn, and beans. In 2006 there were 55,000 head of cows, with most of them being for meat production. The main agricultural products in planted area were cotton, rice, sugarcane, beans, manioc, corn, and soybeans (3,700 hectares). Only the last had a planted area exceeding 500 hectares. A recent agricultural product is the pupunha (Bactris Gasipaes Kunth), a type of palm from which is extracted oil and flour. Also se
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The ranking on the 2000

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was 0.664 *State ranking: 229 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000) *National ranking: 3,548 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000) *Schools: 11 with 1,070 students (2006) *Hospitals: none (2007) *Literacy rate: 75.3% (2000) *Infant mortality rate: 27.83 (2000) Mimoso was created as a district of

in 1951. In 1975 it was transferred to the municipality of

. In 1987 it was dismembered from Padre Bernardo and elevated to a municipality, which was installed in 1989.

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