São João d'Aliança 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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. São João is a gateway to the

Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park () is a National park (Brazil), national park of Brazil located in the state of Goiás, on the top of an ancient plateau with an estimated age of 1.8 billion years. The park was created on January 11, 1961, by P ...

. The name is sometimes written as São João D'Aliança.

Location

São João is located north of

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 ...

on state highway G0-118, which begins near Planaltina and connects with

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. It is part of the Chapada dos Veadeiros Microregion. The distance to the state capital,

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is 357 km. Highway connections from

are made by BR-153 /

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/ BR-060 /

Alexânia Alexânia is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. The Areias River passes through the municipality. Location It is located on the main Brasília–Goiânia highway, GO-060, which has been recently widened to four lanes. The distance ...

/ Planaltina (DF) / GO-430 /

Planaltina de Goiás Planaltina may refer to: Geography * Planaltina, Federal District, an administrative region in the Federal District, Brazil * Planaltina, Goiás, a municipality in the state of Goiás (in the metropolitan region of Brasilia), Brazil * Planaltina ...

(GO) / GO-118 / BR-010 /. Neighboring municipalities are: *North:

*South:

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and Água Fria de Goiás *East: Flores de Goiás *West:

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 ...

The economy

The economy is based on agriculture (corn, soybeans, and manioc), cattle raising (64,800 head in 2006), services, public administration, and small transformation industries. The soils, altitude and climate are considered favorable for planting corn (7,000 hectares) and soybeans (19,000 hectares). Farmers harvest 15,000 sacks of corn per square kilometre, which is twice the national average. Usually corn is rotated with soybeans. There was one financial institution—Banco Itaú—in 2007. In 2006 there were 893 farms with a total area of 133,134 ha., of which 2,590 ha. were permanent crops, 27,673 ha. were perennial crops, and 71,332 ha. were natural pasture. There were 2,550 persons dependent on agriculture. The number of tractors was 259.

Health and education

*Hospitals: 01 with 24 beds (2007) *Adult literacy rate: 84.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%) *Infant mortality rate: 26.56 (2000) (national average was 33. *MHDI: 0.719 *State ranking: 177 (out of 242 municipalities) *National ranking: 2,654 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

Tourism

Tourism has become important in recent years with the proximity of the

. There are several waterfalls in the region, with the Cachoeira Extrema or Label being the highest: 130 meters of direct fall. It is still quite inaccessible and it is necessary to walk three hours to reach it. The vegetation and fauna are very rich in the area. In the

cerrado The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...

there are a minimum of 837 species of birds and 161 species of mammals.

History

São João began as a farm in the nineteenth century. In 1910, it was Arraial Capetinga, consisting of same grass huts, two houses covered with tiles, and a chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. In 1931 it became a municipality only to revert to a district of Formosa in 1939. Finally in 1953 it was re-established as a municipality. With the construction of

and a relative proximity to that important city, farmers from the south began to arrive and buy inexpensive land to plant soybeans.

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