Rio Verde 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 the

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ian state of

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 ...

. It is a fast-growing center and is the largest producer of grains in the state.

Geography

Location

It is the center of the

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, situated at a distance of 229 km (142 mi) from

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-larges ...

, the capital of the state and 420 km (261 mi) from

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, the capital of Brazil. Highway connections from

and the following other cities;

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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: *n ...

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 ...

, and

Santo Antônio da Barra Santo Antônio da Barra is a municipality in southwest Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 4,854 (2020 estimate) in a total area of 451.6 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 650 meters. Santo Antônio is a large producer of pou ...

are made by BR-060. The annual average temperature is between 20 °C and 35 °C. Vegetation is mainly

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, with some residual

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s. The bordering cities are Aparecida do Rio Doce,

Cachoeira Alta Cachoeira Alta is a municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 12,666 inhabitants in 2020 in a total area of 1659.4 km2. Cachoeira Alta has one of the largest cattle herds in the state. Location Cachoeira Alta is located ...

Caiapônia Caiapônia is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. It has the third largest cattle herd in the state and is a major producer of grains. The town is also known as Torres Do Rio Bonito or just Rio Bonito ...

Castelândia Castelândia is a municipality in southwest Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of sugar cane and soybeans. Location Castelândia is located in the southwest of the state, west of the Rio dos Bois, a major tributary of the Paranaíba. I ...

Jataí Jataí is a municipality in southern Goiás state, Brazil. Its population was 103,221 (2021) in a total area of . Jataí is a major producer of agricultural products, including soybeans, rice, and corn. It has the largest herd of cattle in the ...

Maurilândia Maurilândia is a municipality in southwest Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of sugarcane. Location Maurilândia is located in the Southwest Goiás Microregion on the Rio São Tomé near the Rio Turvo and the Rio dos Bois, an import ...

, Montividiu,

Paraúna Paraúna is a municipality in southwestern Goiás state, Brazil. It has strange rock formations and is a large producer of cotton and soybeans. Location Highway connections with Goiânia are made by BR-060 / Abadia de Goiás / Guapó / Indiara / ...

Quirinópolis Quirinópolis is a municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of cattle and agricultural products. Location Quirinópolis is the seat of the Quirinópolis Microregion. It forms boundaries with Gouvelândia (west), Cacho ...

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 ...

, and Santo Antonio da Barra. Two major federal highways cross the municipality: BR-060, which links

to the state of

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, and BR-452, which links Rio Verde to

Itumbiara Itumbiara () is a municipality in Brazil, located in the southern part of the state of Goiás, on the border with Minas Gerais. It is a "sister city" to the Minas Gerais municipality of Araporã. The city lies south of the state capital, Goiâ ...

, Goiás on the way to

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, SP. Gal. Leite de Castro Airport is a regional with a paved 1,500-meter runway, with night lighting and a passenger terminal. There are daily flights to

Uberlândia Uberlândia () is a city and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is the second largest city in the state of Minas Gerais after the state capital Belo Horizonte. Its population in 2020 was 699,097, making it the si ...

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and

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History

The development of Rio Verde began in 1838 when the government offered a tax exemption for ten years to anyone who would settle in the area. In 1846 lands were donated for the building of the first chapel, Nossa Senhora das Dores. In 1848 it was made a freguesia (parish) with the name Dores de Rio Verde. In 1882 it was elevated to a city. Mayors of Rio Verde: *Felipe Santa Cruz: 1st elected mayor of Rio Verder *Nêgo Portilho: 2nd elected mayor of Rio Verde *Paulo Campos: Mayor of Rio Verde between 1961 and 1966

Economy

Rio Verde is the largest producer of

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s in the state, reaching up to 790 thousand metric tons per year of

rice Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...

cotton Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure ...

soy The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (''Glycine max'') is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean. Soy is a staple crop, the world's most grown legume, and an important animal feed. Soy is a key source of f ...

maize Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native American ...

sorghum ''Sorghum bicolor'', commonly called sorghum () and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the Poaceae, grass genus ''Sorghum (genus), Sorghum'' cultivated for its grain. The grain i ...

millet Millets () are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Most millets belong to the tribe Paniceae. Millets are important crops in the Semi-arid climate, ...

beans A bean is the seed of some plants in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are often preserved through drying (a ''pulse''), but fresh beans are also sold. Dried beans are tradition ...

and

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s. There is also a considerable production of

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...

for the extraction of

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and

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. The arable land exceeds 2,300 square kilometres. With 320,000 head (2007), the city has one of the largest

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herds and is the largest producer of

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of lactating mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfeeding, breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. ...

in the state, producing 61 million liters per month. It also is a large producer of poultry (11,600,000) and pigs (335,000). Approximately 20 thousand head of cattle are slaughtered per month, supplying both the domestic and international markets (10% of the production is exported). Agricultural production (2006) in hectares: *cotton: 2,800 *rice: 2,500 *sugarcane: 5,900 *beans: 5,600 *corn: 59,000 *soybeans: 250,000 *sorghum: 20,000 *wheat: 500 In the agricultural sector there were 2,166 farms in 2006 with a total area of 513,233 hectares, of which 281,871 hectares were planted, 141,289 hectares were in pasture, and 74,187 hectares were in woodland. Farms employed 3,928 workers.

Education

The city is a regional educational center, in all educational levels. There are 32,000 students enrolled in primary and secondary education, in 11 elementary schools, 52 municipal junior and high schools, 19 state junior and high schools and 20 private schools. Vocational education at the secondary level is offered by the Rio Verde campus of IFGoiano, with courses in many knowledge areas;

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, with courses in automobile maintenance, electronics, heavy mechanics,

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or ...

and administrative support; SENAC, with

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and

beauty Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasure, pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, art and taste are the main subjects of aesthetics, one of the fie ...

health care Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

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and

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s. Rio Verde has one

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, the '' Fundação do Ensino Superior do Rio Verde'' (FESURV), with 13 undergraduate courses in several areas, as well as other colleges, such as Faculdades Objetivo, Faculdade Almeida Rodrigues and IFGoiano - Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Goiano.

Health care

Rio Verde is a regional health care center, with 110 physicians and 150 dentists, in all specialties, 26 clinics, two mobile and one airborne intensive care units, and three ambulances. It has also 9

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s, 1 hemocenter and 1 municipal

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center, 11 ambulatory public health centers, which dispense about 25,000 consultations a month. It has also a

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Program (PSF), with eight teams.

Commerce and industry

Rio Verde had 242 industries, 1,768

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establishments and 1,996

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establishments (statistics of 2007). It has also 5 industrial districts. The largest employer is the Mixed Cooperative of Agricultural Producers of Southwestern Goiás, the first to be founded in the entire Center-West region, ranking among the three largest of the country, with more than 4 thousand employees and generating 1.3 thousand jobs. Rio Verde attracts 62% of the private investments of the state, 60% of the agricultural loans by

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and 15% of the state's agricultural operational funding. The agricultural vocation is expressed by the strong development of agricultural tourism and events, with emphasis on technologies that bring entrepreneurs and researchers from all over of the world. The city has four

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s (three FM and one AM), two

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s, Digital

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and two

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Quality of Life

The municipality is one of the most prosperous in the state. In 2000, Rio Verde earned a score of 0.807 on the UN

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, ranking it number 1 out of 242 municipalities in the state, and number 44 out of 5,507 municipalities in the country.

Sister Cities

Rio Verde has established partnerships with these cities: *

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Climate

References

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Notes

External links

Fotoblog
- pictures of Rio Verde
Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Verde
- the official city hall website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rio Verde, Goias Municipalities in Goiás