Edéia

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Edéia is a small city and municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 10,990 in 2005 and the area of the municipality was 1,466.3 km².

  • Population density: 7.25 inhab/km² (2003)
  • Elevation: 601
  • Became a city: 1948
  • Postal code: 75940-000

Edéia is in the Vale do Rio dos Bois Microregion and has municipal boundaries with:

The distance to Goiânia is 125 kilometers and highway connections are made by BR-060 / Guapó / Cezarina / Indiara / GO-320.

Political Data

  • Eligible voters: 7,365 (06/09/2004)
  • Mayor: Elson Tavares de Freitas (January 2005)
  • Vice-mayor: Amilson Ferreira Borges
  • Councilmembers: 09

Demographic Data

  • Population growth rate 1991/2000: 1.43.%
  • Population in 1980: 12,597
  • Population in 1991: 8,999
  • Urban population in 2003: 8,533
  • Rural population in 2003: 2,067
  • Households in 2000: 3,084
  • Households earning less than 01 minimum salary: 893

Economic Data

  • Gross Domestic Product in 2003: R$105.585 million
  • Gross Domestic Product in 2002: R$93.030 million
  • State ranking of GDP in 2002: 64 out of 246 municipalities
  • PIB per capita in 2003: R$9,856
  • PIB per capita in 2002: R$8,798 (state average was R$5,921)
  • Industrial units: 07 (10/06/2005)
  • Retail units: 92 (abr/2005)
  • Banking institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A.

(01/06/2005)

  • Dairies: none (07/06/2005)
  • Automobiles: 889 in 2004
  • Cooperatives: Coop. Educacional de Edéia Ltda - CEDEL

Animal Raising

  • Cattle: 74,970 head
  • Poultry: 42,500
  • Dairy cows: 7,500

Agricultural Products

  • Rice: 800 hectares / 1,760 tons
  • Cotton: 1,300 hectares / 3,250 tons
  • Corn: 1,300 hectares / 8,450 tons
  • Soybeans: 60,000 hectares / 144,000 tons

Education and Health

  • Literacy rate: 86.5%
  • Infant mortality rate: 22.64 in 1,000 live births
  • Schools: 09 (2005)
  • Classrooms: 55
  • Teachers: 123
  • Higher education: Pólo Universitário da UEG
  • Students: 2,828
  • Hospitals: 01 (July 2003
  • Hospital beds: 25
  • Walk-in public health clinics: 05

History

Edéia began around 1915, in the settlement called Povoado de Santo Antônio do Alegrete, near the Turvo and Bois rivers, where a chapel to Saint Anthony was erected. The first commercial house appeared in 1913 and the settlement got its municipal emancipation in 1948. Electricity arrived only in 1966.

Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index

  • Life expectancy: 69.47
  • Adult literacy rate: 0.850
  • School attendance rate: 0.790
  • MHDI: 0.759
  • State ranking: 58 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
  • National ranking: 1,624 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)

Data are from 2000

For a complete list see Frigoletto

Sources of Data

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