Jaraguá

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Jaraguá
State	Goiás
Area:	1,888.9 km²
Population:	36,479 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation:	666 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	76330-000
Became a city:	1882
Distance to Goiânia:	124 km
IBGE statistical microregion:	Anápolis Microregion
Website:	n/a

Jaraguá is a small city and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. It is a regional center and a producer of agricultural products, clothing, and cattle.

1 Location and connections
2 Municipal boundaries:
3 Political data
4 Demographic data
5 Economy
- 5.1 Economic data
- 5.2 Main crops in planted area (2003):
6 Education (2005)
7 Health (2003)
8 Municipal Human Development Index
9 Sources of data
10 See also

[edit] Location and connections

Considered to be the national capital of the clothing industry, Jaraguá is in the Vale do São Patrício on the important Belém-Brasília highway (BR-153). It is 124 km from the state capital of Goiânia and 230 km from the federal capital of Brasília. Anápolis, the second largest city in the state of Goiás, lies 90 km to the south.

Highway connections from Goiânia are made by GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 /. For a complete list of distances and highway connections in the state of Goiás see Seplan

[edit] Municipal boundaries:

Goianésia, Itaguari, Itaguaru, Jesúpolis, Pirenópolis, Rianápolis, Santa Isabel, Santa Rosa de Goiás, São Francisco de Goiás, Taquaral de Goiás and Uruana.

[edit] Political data

Mayor: Lineu Olímpio de Souza
Vice-mayor: Fabiano Cassiano Dutra
Number of councilmembers: 9
Total number of eligible voters: 25,052 (06/09/2004)

[edit] Demographic data

Population density: 18.45 inhab/km² (2003)
Population in 1980: 36,559 (14,712 urban and 21,847 rural)
Population in 1991: 28,184 (15,635 urban and 12,549 rural)
Population in 2003: 34,855 (27,468 urban and 7,387 rural) (1)
Population in 2005: 36,479 (1)

(1)Estimated by logistic method

Population growth rate 1991/1996: 0.90.%
Population growth rate 1991/2000: 1.87.%
Population growth rate 1996/2000: 3.09.%

[edit] Economy

Today it has a solid economy based on agriculture, cattle raising and the clothing industry. In agriculture Jaraguá produces pineapple, watermelon, corn, rice, and beans. In cattle raising it has one of the largest herds of cattle in the state (170,590 in 2003) and is a leader in milk and dairy product production with 32,000 milking cows. Jaraguá is the largest producer of pineapple in the state of Goiás, with most of the product being exported to São Paulo.

The clothing industry is responsible for the presence of over 400 small factories. Everything began in the 1970s with the arrival of the Pereira da Silva family, who were modest tailors. Today the clothes manufactured here are known all over the country with salespersons arriving to buy up stock and resell it in the large urban centers of the south.

[edit] Economic data

Number of Industrial Establishments: 360 (10/06/2005)
Industrial District: (Sept/2004)
Distilleries: (June/2005)
Meat-packing Plants/Egg collection: (07/06/2005)
Dairies: - Conceição Fleury de Bastos.; - Fleury e Pinto Ltda. (07/06/2005)
Banking Establishments: - - Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A. - CEF - HSBC Bank Brasil S.A._Banco Multiplo.
Number of Retail Commercial Establishments: 265 (April/2005)
Motor vehicles: 2,745 automobiles, 195 trucks, 154 pickup trucks, and 1,226 motorcycles. (2004)

GDP: (R$ 1,000.00) 150.850 (2003)
GDP: per capita (R$ 1.00) 4.270 (2003)
GDP by sectors in 2002 (R$ 1,000.00): 37.251 (Agriculture), 31.827 (Industry), 58.739 (Services)
Ranking of GDP in state (2002): 44

[edit] Main crops in planted area (2003):

pineapple: 4 km²
rice: 12 km²
corn: 45 km²
soybeans: 4 km²
tomatoes: 0.6 km²
watermelon: 7.5 km²

Data are from IBGE

[edit] Education (2005)

Schools in activity: 31
Classrooms: 219
Teachers: 409
Total Students: 10,244
Students in pre-school education: 1,361
Students in Primary Level: 6,544
Students in Secondary Level: 1,733
Students in Special Education: 98
Students in Adult Education: 451
Students in Professional Education: 0
Students in Nursery School: 57
Higher education: UEG - Faculdade Estadual de Ciências Humanas e Exatas de Jaraguá
Literacy Rate: 86.6%