Santa Terezinha de Goiás
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| Santa Terezinha de Goiás | |
|---|---|
| State | Goiás |
| Area: | 1,202.2 km² |
| Population: | 9,191 (IBGE 2005) |
| Elevation: | 409m above sea level |
| Postcode (CEP): | 76500-000 |
| IBGE statistical microregion: | 004 Porangatu Microregion |
| Became a city: | 1963 |
| Distance to Goiânia: | 300 km. |
| Website: | none |
Santa Terezinha de Goiás is a small city and municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil. Santa Terezinha is sometimes written as ""Santa Teresinha".
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[edit] Location
Santa Terezinha is in the extreme north of the state, 174 km. southwest of Porangatu. It is 66 km. west of the important BR-153 highway.
Highway connections from Goiânia are made by GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá / Rianápolis / Rialma / GO-336 / Itapaci / GO-154 / Pilar de Goiás. See Seplan
Santa Terezinha de Goiás is bordered by the following municipalities:
- north: Campos Verdes de Goiás and Mara Rosa
- south: Guarinos
- east: Uruaçu
- west: Crixás
[edit] Political Information
- Mayor: Vitalino da Silva Muniz (January 2005)
- City council: 09
- Eligible voters: 9,208 (April/2006)
[edit] Demographic Information
- Population density: 7.65 inhab/km² (2005)
- Urban population: 8,871 (2000)
- Rural population: 3,144 (2000)
- Population change: a loss of about 1,800 people since 1980
[edit] Economic Information
The economy is based on modest agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. Of the total GDP of 34 million Reais in 2002 14 million were from agriculture, 4 million from industry, and 16 million from services.
- Industrial units: 20 (2005)
- Retail units: 89 (2005), employing 233 workers in 2003
- Dairy: none (22/05/2006)
- Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)
- Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. (01/06/2005)
- Automobiles: 454 (2004)
- Cattle herd: 83,000 head (11,000 milk cows) (2004)
- Poultry: 30,500 head (2004)
- Swine: 1,680 head (2004)
- Main crops: pineapple, rice (350 hectares), bananas, sugarcane, coconuts, beans, manioc, corn (800 hectares), and hearts of palm.
[edit] Education (2005)
- Schools: 13
- Classrooms: 104
- Teachers: 199
- Students: 3,681
- Higher education: campus of the Universidade Estadual de Goiás
- Adult literacy rate: 83.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
[edit] Health (2003)
- Hospitals: 1
- Hospital beds: 27
- Ambulatory clinics: 5
- Doctors, nurses, dentists: 12, 3, 2 (2002)
- Infant mortality rate: 27.56 (2000) (national average was 33.
[edit] Municipal Human Development Index
- Life expectancy: 67.6
- Adult literacy rate: 0.809
- School attendance rate: 0.884
- MHDI: 0.721
- State ranking: 171 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
- National ranking: 2,607 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)
Data are from 2000
For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br
