Varjão is a

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in western

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state,

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Geography and Demographics

Varjão is located 77 km. southwest of

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and is 26 km. southeast of

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. Highway connections from

are made by BR-060/

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/GO-413.

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are adjacent to Varjão. Its postcode (CEP) is 75355-000, and its IBGE statistical microregion is 014 Vale do Rio dos Bois. the

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estimates the population of Varjão to be 3,848 inhabitants.

Government

Rafael Pereira Machado Franco is Varjão's mayor. The city council has nine members and there are 3,022 eligible voters .

Economy

The economy is based on

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements. Planting decisions occu ...

, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. *Industrial units: 1 (2007) *Commercial units: 38 (2007) *Motor vehicles: 420 (2007), which gave a ratio of 9 inhabitants for each motor vehicle *Cattle herd: 48,000 head (7,210 milk cows) (2006) *Poultry: 19,300 head (2006) *Swine: 3,450 head (2006) *Main crops: rice (200 hectares), sugarcane, oranges, beans, manioc, corn (600 hectares), and soybeans.
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Health and education

In 2006, the 1,141 students in Varjão were served by four schools, with a total of 22 classrooms and 27 teachers. In 2000, its school attendance rate was 0.806. There are no higher education facilities. Varjão's adult literacy rate was 83.0% in 2000, just below the national average of 86.4%. In 2003, there were no hospitals and two ambulatory clinics in Varjão. In 2002, two doctors, one nurse, and one dentist lived in the town. The town's infant mortality rate 22.64 (2000) is well below the national average of 33.0. In 2000, the town's life expectancy was 69.4. The score on the Municipal

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was 0.729 in 2000, ranking it at 149 out of 242 municipalities in the state of

and 2,456 out of 5,507 municipalities in Brazil overall.

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